Background AR technology has been increasing across domains in cognitive activities, i.e. learning. Although there are studies that try to examine the quality AR can bring into different territories of human culture, such as educational settings, few studies aspire to determine how AR can have on human memory. Particularly short-term memory.

Objectives This research aims to assess the affect on short-term memory through an AR and Analog game.

Methods The method proposed for this thesis work is a user study in a controlled environment to gather data for the results. In order to test the hypothesis, a quantitative approach was selected as two versions of the same game were compared. A within-participant experiment was designed.

Results The results from the experiment indicate that AR has a lower score on average compared to its non-virtual counterpart.

Conclusion Overall, our findings suggest that AR does not have a significant affect on short-term memory with digits.