Augmented Reality as a Training Medium for Aviation/Aerospace Application

Abstract

Augmented Reality (AR) has the potential to transform aviation/aerospace training by creating new mixed reality worlds that serve as a medium for gaining work related skills. AR is a mixed reality environment generated through machine vision and computer graphics technology that merges real and virtual objects in unified, spatially integrated scenes. Using AR to develop augmented scenes in a highly memorable framework can complement human information processing, and such a complement can reveal itself in training efficiency applicable to a wide variety of work related tasks. This research determined that AR-based learning affects long term memory by reducing the amount of information forgotten after a seven day intervening time between immediate recall testing and long term retention recall testing. Continuing research in the field of AR applications for training is necessary because of human variabilities, the potential for increased learning performance and significant decreases in training time.

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