Assessing the benefits of stereoscopic displays to visual search: methodology and initial findings

Hayward Godwin; Nicolas Steven Holliman; Tamaryn Menneer; Simon Liversedge; Kyle Cave; Nick Donnelly

Assessing the benefits of stereoscopic displays to visual search: methodology and initial findings

Hayward Godwin, Nicolas Steven Holliman, Tamaryn Menneer, Simon Liversedge, Kyle Cave, Nick Donnelly

Theatre, Film, TV and Interactive Media

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Abstract

Visual search is a task that is carried out in a number of important security and health related scenarios (e.g., X-ray baggage screening, radiography). With recent and ongoing developments in the technology available to present images to observers in stereoscopic depth, there has been increasing interest in assessing whether depth information can be used in complex search tasks to improve search performance. Here we outline the methodology that we developed, along with both software and hardware information, in order to assess visual search performance in complex, overlapping stimuli that also contained depth information. In doing so, our goal is to foster further research along these lines in the future. We also provide an overview with initial results of the experiments that we have conducted involving participants searching stimuli that contain overlapping objects presented on different depth planes to one another. Thus far, we have found that depth information does improve the speed (but not accuracy) of search, but only when the stimuli are highly complex and contain a significant degree of overlap. Depth information may therefore aid real-world search tasks that involve the examination of complex, overlapping stimuli.

Original language	English
Number of pages	11
Publication status	Accepted/In press - 8 Feb 2015
Event	Stereoscopic Displays and Applications XVI - San Francisco, United States Duration: 9 Feb 2015 → 11 Feb 2015

Conference

Conference	Stereoscopic Displays and Applications XVI
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Francisco
Period	9/02/15 → 11/02/15

Keywords

visual search, overlap, stereoscopic displays

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