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With the propagation of digitalization in engineering education, tools like Augmented Reality are increasingly focused by educators. However, creating content to use in education is a time-consuming task that requires a basic understanding of 3D modeling and programming. To solve those issues the authors developed an Augmented Reality Content Management System for use in laboratory experiments. In this paper the authors describe and discuss a conducted usability study for the developed system. Students from different fields used the system to conduct a previously unknown experiment. Afterwards, a questionnaire based on the NASA Task Load Index was filled out to judge not only the perceived stress level but also the usability and usefulness of the system so that future development efforts can be based on the results.
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Siewert, J.L., Wolf, M., Böhm, B., Thienhaus, S. (2021). Usability Study for an Augmented Reality Content Management System. In: Auer, M., May, D. (eds) Cross Reality and Data Science in Engineering. REV 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1231. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52575-0_22
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