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Perception of Volumetric Characters’ Eye-Gaze Direction in Head-Mounted Displays

Macquarrie, A; Steed, A; (2019) Perception of Volumetric Characters’ Eye-Gaze Direction in Head-Mounted Displays. In: Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR). (pp. pp. 645-654). IEEE: Osaka, Japan. Green open access

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Abstract

Volumetric capture allows the creation of near-video-quality content that can be explored with six degrees of freedom. Due to limitations in these experiences, such as the content being fixed at the point of filming, an understanding of eye-gaze awareness is critical. A repeated measures experiment was conducted that explored users’ ability to evaluate where a volumetrically captured avatar (VCA) was looking. Wearing one of two head-mounted displays (HMDs), 36 participants rotated a VCA to look at a target. The HMD resolution, target position, and VCA’s eye-gaze direction were varied. Results did not show a difference in accuracy between HMD resolutions, while the task became significantly harder for target locations further away from the user. In contrast to real-world studies, participants consistently misjudged eye-gaze direction based on target location, but not based on the avatar’s head turn direction. Implications are discussed, as results for VCAs viewed in HMDs appear to differ from face-to-face scenarios.

Type: Proceedings paper
Title: Perception of Volumetric Characters’ Eye-Gaze Direction in Head-Mounted Displays
Event: 2019 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR)
Location: Osaka, Japan
Dates: 22 March 2019 - 27 March 2019
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1109/VR.2019.8797852
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1109/VR.2019.8797852
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: User study, Virtual reality, Gaze perception
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10071148
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