Those designing coming augmented reality systems should make them adaptable to change, resistant to hacking and responsive to the needs of diverse users, according to a white paper by an interdisciplinary group of researchers at the University of Washington's Tech Policy Lab.
The Tech Policy Lab brings together faculty and students from the School of Law, Information School and Computer Science & Engineering Department and other campus units to think through issues of technology policy. "Augmented Reality: A Technology and Policy Primer" is the lab's first official white paper aimed at a policy audience.
The researchers used a method of work designed by the Tech Policy Lab for evaluating new technologies, first conferring with those in the computer science field to define augmented reality as precisely as possible. Then they look to the humanities and social sciences -- information science, in this case -- to consider the impact of the technology in question on various end users. They called these "diversity panels."
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Download the white paper here: http://techpolicylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Augmented_Reality_Primer.pdf