CAREER: Situated Visual Augmentation for Human-AI Complementarity in Physical Spaces — NSF Award to University of Minnesota-Twin C
Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a powerful tool for helping people make decisions, but most AI systems still deliver advice on desktop screens. This is a poor fit for people working in physical environments, such as surgeons, facility teams, first responders, and coaches. Augmented reality (AR) can place AI gu
| Award title | CAREER: Situated Visual Augmentation for Human-AI Complementarity in Physical Spaces |
|---|---|
| Award ID | 2543054 |
| Awardee | University of Minnesota-Twin Cities |
| City | MINNEAPOLIS |
| State | MN |
| Amount obligated | $400,118 |
| Principal investigator | Zhutian Chen |
| Program | HCC-Human-Centered Computing |
| Start date | 06/15/2026 |
| Abstract | Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a powerful tool for helping people make decisions, but most AI systems still deliver advice on desktop screens. This is a poor fit for people working in physical environments, such as surgeons, facility teams, first responders, and coaches. Augmented reality (AR) can place AI guidance directly into these settings, but simply moving information off a screen is not enough. In these settings, people must divide attention among the environment, movement, and |
| Source | NSF Awards |
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