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

Roberts, DJ; Murray, NS

Abstract

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.

Citation

Roberts, D., & Murray, N. Comparison of head gaze and head and eye gaze within an immersive environment. Presented at 10th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications, Malaga, Spain

• Presentation Conference Type: Other
• Conference Name: 10th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications
• Conference Location: Malaga, Spain
• End Date: Oct 4, 2006
• Online Publication Date: Dec 11, 2006
• Publication Date: Oct 4, 2006
• Deposit Date: Jan 6, 2009
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 6, 2021
• Book Title: 2006 Tenth IEEE International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real-Time Applications
• ISBN: 0769526977
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/DS-RT.2006.13
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/DS-RT.2006.13
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• Additional Information: Additional Information : Proceedings of the Tenth IEEE International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real-Time Applications (DS-RT'06), held 2-4 October 2006 ISBN: 15506525; Event Type : Conference