Documents in Your Hands: Exploring Interaction Techniques for Spatial Arrangement of Augmented Reality Documents

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Abstract

Augmented Reality (AR) promises to enhance daily office activities involving numerous textual documents, slides, and spreadsheets by expanding workspaces and enabling more direct interaction. However, there is a lack of systematic understanding of how knowledge workers can manage multiple documents and organize, explore, and compare them in AR environments. Therefore, we conducted a user-centered design study (N = 21) using predefined spatial document layouts in AR to elicit interaction techniques, resulting in 790 observation notes. Thematic analysis identified various interaction methods for aggregating, distributing, transforming, inspecting, and navigating document collections. Based on these findings, we propose a design space and distill design implications for AR document arrangement systems, such as enabling body-anchored storage, facilitating layout spreading and compressing, and designing interactions for layout transformation. To demonstrate their usage, we developed a rapid prototyping system and exemplify three envisioned scenarios. With this, we aim to inspire the design of future immersive offices.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCHI '25: Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PublisherACM New York, NY, USA
Number of pages22
ISBN (electronic)9798400713941
Publication statusPublished - 25 Apr 2025
Peer-reviewedYes

Conference

TitleCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2025
SubtitleIkiCHI
Abbreviated titleCHI 2025
Duration26 April - 1 May 2025
Website
Degree of recognitionInternational event
LocationPACIFICO Yokohama & Online
CityYokohama
CountryJapan

External IDs

ORCID /0000-0002-2176-876X/work/183164800
ORCID /0000-0002-1952-8302/work/183165433
ORCID /0000-0002-1312-1528/work/183165662
Scopus 105005772193

Keywords

Keywords

  • spatial layout, interaction design, user-centered design, content organization, Mixed Reality