Comparison of head gaze and head and eye gaze within an immersive environment

For efficient collaboration between participants, eye gaze is seen as being critical for interaction. Teleconferencing systems such as the AcessGrid allow users to meet across geographically disparate rooms but as of now there seems no substitute for face to face meetings. This paper gives an overvi...

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Published in:2006 Tenth IEEE International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real-Time Applications pp. 70 - 76
Main Authors: Murray, Norman, Roberts, Dave
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC, USA IEEE Computer Society 01.01.2006
IEEE
Series:ACM Conferences
Subjects:
Avatars
Collaboration
Collaborative work
Communications technology
Computing methodologies > Computer graphics > Graphics systems and interfaces > Virtual reality
Displays
Eyes
Glass
Human-centered computing > Human computer interaction (HCI)
Human-centered computing > Human computer interaction (HCI) > Interaction paradigms > Mixed > augmented reality
Human-centered computing > Human computer interaction (HCI) > Interaction paradigms > Virtual reality
Speech
Teleconferencing
Virtual environment
ISBN:9780769526973, 0769526977
ISSN:1550-6525
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Summary:For efficient collaboration between participants, eye gaze is seen as being critical for interaction. Teleconferencing systems such as the AcessGrid allow users to meet across geographically disparate rooms but as of now there seems no substitute for face to face meetings. This paper gives an overview of some preliminary work that looks towards integrating eye gaze into an immersive Collaborative Virtual Environment and assessing the impact that this would have on interaction between the users of such a system. An experiment was conducted to assess the difference between users abilities to judge what objects an avatar is looking at with only head gaze being viewed and also with eye and head gaze data being displayed. The results from the experiment show that eye gaze is of vital importance to the subjects correctly identifying what a person is looking at in an immersive virtual environment. This is followed by a description of how the eye tracking system has been integrated into an immersive collaborative virtual environment and some preliminary results from the use of such a system.
ISBN:9780769526973
0769526977
ISSN:1550-6525
DOI:10.1109/DS-RT.2006.13