A Task-Based Design Approach for Augmented Reality Systems

User interaction components of Augmented Reality (AR) systems have to be tested with users in order to find and fix usability problems as early as possible. In this paper we will report on a user-centered design approach for AR systems following the experience acquired during the design and evaluation of a software prototype for an AR-based educational platform. In this respect we will focus on the re-design of the user task based on the results from a formative usability evaluation. The basic idea of our approach is to describe task scenarios in a tabular format, to develop a task model in a task modeling environment and then to simulate the execution.

• Costin Pribeanu
• Rytis Vilkonis
• Dragoş Daniel Iordache

• AR-based educational systems
• task-based design
• usability evaluation.

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