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Paper No S8.2: Quantifying the Ability of Individuals With Macular Disease to See and Read Content on Virtual and Augmented Reality Devices
Author(s) -
Moshtael Howard,
Fu Lanxing,
Underwood Ian,
Dhillon Baljean
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
sid symposium digest of technical papers
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.351
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 2168-0159
pISSN - 0097-966X
DOI - 10.1002/sdtp.10571
Subject(s) - headset , content (measure theory) , reading (process) , computer science , smartphone application , multimedia , measure (data warehouse) , augmented reality , human–computer interaction , mathematics , data mining , telecommunications , mathematical analysis , political science , law
Abstract A pilot study has been conducted to measure the ability of subjects with macular disease to read content on smart glasses and a smartphone headset. Compared to reading text on paper, participants could read text an average size of 30% smaller on the smart glasses and approximately the same size on the smartphone.