Programmable Peripheral Vision: augment/reshape human visual perception

Abstract

Over time our daily visual tasks become more complex continuously, however, the natural adaptation of our visual system does not adapt as fast as the living environment changes. As the representations of this unbalanced trend, concentration difficulty and visual overload are experienced and studied intensively. As well as universal motion sickness occurs in both real-life and virtual environments. Besides, online learning and co-working experience are far from satisfactory, which is partly due to lacking engagement and instantaneous visual interaction that we used to have when conducting those activities offline. Thus, my goal is to propose methods helping us better adapt to rapidly changing visual contexts. In the formative research, I created dynamic peripheral vision blocking glasses, and its experimental result indicates that wearing such glasses helped its users suffer fewer motion sickness symptoms while accessing fast-moving surrounding scenery in a VR environment. For the following studies, I am creating dynamic saliency adjusting glasses and gaze guiding glasses to augment and reshape daily-life visual perception.