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    Navigation performance effects of render method and latency in mobile audio augmented reality

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    2009-05
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    Mariette, Nicholas
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    Abstract
    This paper describes a pilot study and main experiment that as- sess user performance at navigating to spatialised sound sources using a mobile audio augmented reality system. Experiments use a novel outdoor paradigm with an application-relevant navigation task to compare perception of two binaural rendering methods un- der several head-turn latencies. Binaural rendering methods ex- amined were virtual, 6-speaker, first-order Ambisonic and virtual 12-speaker VBAP techniques. This study extends existing indoors research on the effects of head-turn latency for seated listeners. The pilot study examined the effect of capture radius (of 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 metres) on mean distance efficiency for a single user’s navigation path to sound sources. A significant performance degradation was found to occur for radii of 2 m. The main exper- iment examined the effect of render method and total system la- tency to head-turns (176 ms minimum plus 0, 100, 200, 400 and 800 ms) on mean distance efficiency and subjective stability rating (on a scale of 1-5), for 8 participants. Render method significantly affected distance efficiency and 800 ms of added head-turn latency significantly affected subjective stability. Also, the study revealed a significant interaction effect of render method and head-turn la- tency: Ambisonic rendering didn’t significantly affect subjective stability due to added head-turn latency, while VBAP rendering did. Thus, it appears rendering method can mitigate or potentiate stability effects of head-turn latency. The study also exemplifies that the novel experimental paradigm is capable of revealing statis- tically significant performance differences between mobile audio AR implementations.
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