Peripheral vision plays a significant role in human perception and orientation. However, its relevance for human-computer interaction, especially head-mounted displays, has not been fully explored yet. In the past, a few specialized appliances were developed to display visual cues in the periphery, each designed for a single specific use case only. A multi-purpose headset to exclusively augment peripheral vision did not exist yet. We introduce MoPeDT: Modular Peripheral Display Toolkit, a freely available, flexible, reconfigurable, and extendable headset to conduct peripheral vision research. MoPeDT can be built with a 3D printer and off-the-shelf components. It features multiple spatially configurable near-eye display modules and full 3D tracking inside and outside the lab. With our system, researchers and designers may easily develop and prototype novel peripheral vision interaction and visualization techniques. We demonstrate the versatility of our headset with several possible applications for spatial awareness, balance, interaction, feedback, and notifications. We conducted a small study to evaluate the usability of the system. We found that participants were largely not irritated by the peripheral cues, but the headset's comfort could be further improved. We also evaluated our system based on established heuristics for human-computer interaction toolkits to show how MoPeDT adapts to changing requirements, lowers the entry barrier for peripheral vision research, and facilitates expressive power in the combination of modular building blocks.
翻译:外观视觉在人类感知和定向中起着重要作用。 但是,它对于人-计算机互动,特别是头顶显示器的相关性还没有得到充分探讨。 在过去,开发了一些专门设备,在外围显示视觉提示,每个都只设计为单一特定用途的情况。 还没有一个完全增强外观的多用途耳机。 我们引入了MoPeDTT: 模块外观显示工具: 模块外观显示工具箱, 用于进行外围视觉研究的可自由获取、灵活、可重新配置和可扩展的耳机。 MoPeDT 可以用3D打印机和外壳部件来建构。 它有多个空间可配置的近视显示模块, 并用于在实验室内外全面跟踪。 由于我们的系统, 研究人员和设计者可能很容易开发并原型的外观互动和视觉技术。 我们展示了我们的头盔的多功能性, 以及空间意识、平衡、互动、反馈和通知方面的几种可能应用。 我们进行了一个小项研究, 来评估系统的可用性。 我们发现, 参与者们基本上没有在空间- 直观的外观显示, 我们的右下结构的视野上, 我们的进入了更深层结构的视野的视野的定位上, 是如何被评估了, 我们的进入了更深层结构上, 也被评估了, 我们的进入了, 我们的大脑的进入了我们更深处的大脑的进入了。