AUGSOC - Bringing the Augmented Society to Reality: Shaping Perception, Resilience, and Rights for Everyday AR

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Everyday Augmented Reality (AR) headsets, with wearable, fashionable, all-day form factors, willsupplant our reliance on physical displays, heralding new capabilities in augmented intelligence andperception, communication, productivity and more. They will become as fundamental to our daily livesas smartphones are today, empowering users, communities, business, governments and others to alter,augment, diminish or otherwise mediate our perception of reality.I argue that in driving the Augmented Society, everyday AR has the potential to become the most powerfulagent for societal change we have experienced. For social good, this technology will enable us to "builda better reality", augmenting expression of social identity to better represent our 'authentic' self,and virtually enhancing real-world social spaces to encourage greater community ownership and socialcohesion. For social harm however, everyday AR could infringe upon user and bystander privacy, andfacilitate and amplify information disorder (e.g. dis-information), censorship and coercion in our day-todayexperience of reality. Consequently, it is crucial that research seeks to anticipate societal challengesand steer the development of, and legislation around, everyday AR - minimising harm and maximising thepotential for social good before mass adoption of AR headsets in particular occurs.Using Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) methodology, AUGSOC will explore how we can safelyleverage AR to reshape how we perceive society, and develop resilience to individual and institutionalmisuse and abuse. We will holistically consider our findings to propose new digital human rights andprotections, in particular balancing the tension between AR user perceptual agency (i.e. that users solelycontrol what they perceive) against the desire of others (individuals, communities, institutions) to influencewhat they perceive - fundamental, timely research in support of the EC's vision of a digital society.