Paper ID: 2208.09094

Towards Situation Awareness and Attention Guidance in a Multiplayer Environment using Augmented Reality and Carcassonne

David Kadish, Arezoo Sarkheyli-Hägele, Jose Font, Diederick C. Niehorster, Thomas Pederson

Augmented reality (AR) games are a rich environment for researching and testing computational systems that provide subtle user guidance and training. In particular computer systems that aim to augment a user's situation awareness benefit from the range of sensors and computing power available in AR headsets. In this work-in-progress paper, we present a new environment for research into situation awareness and attention guidance (SAAG): an augmented reality version of the board game Carcassonne. We also present our initial work in producing a SAAG pipeline, including the creation of game state encodings, the development and training of a gameplay AI, and the design of situation modelling and gaze tracking systems.

Submitted: Aug 18, 2022