Garau, M;
Slater, M;
Bee, S;
Sasse, MA;
(2001)
The impact of eye gaze on communication using humanoid avatars.
In:
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems CHI '01.
(pp. pp. 309-316).
ACM: Seattle, Washington, USA.
![[thumbnail of maia1.pdf]](https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/style/images/fileicons/text.png) Preview |
Text
maia1.pdf Download (186kB) |
Abstract
In this paper we describe an experiment designed to investigate the importance of eye gaze in humanoid avatars representing people engaged in conversation. We compare responses to dyadic conversations in four mediated conditions: video, audio-only, and two avatar conditions. The avatar conditions differed only in their treatment of eye gaze. In the random-gaze condition the avatar's head and eye animations were unrelated to conversational flow. In the informed-gaze condition, they were related to turn-taking during the conversation. The head animations were tracked and the eye animations were inferred from the audio stream. Our comparative analysis of 100 post-experiment questionnaires showed that the random-gaze avatar did not improve on audio-only communication. The informed-gaze avatar significantly outperformed the random-gaze model and also outperformed audio-only on several response measures. We conclude that an avatar whose gaze behaviour is related to the conversation provides a marked improvement on an avatar that merely exhibits liveliness.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
|---|---|
| Title: | The impact of eye gaze on communication using humanoid avatars |
| Event: | SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems CHI '01 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1145/365024.365121 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1145/365024.365121 |
| 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: | Avatars, gaze, collaborative virtual environments (CVEs), computer-mediated communication (CMC), mediated communication, nonverbal behaviours |
| 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/20325 |
Archive Staff Only
 |
View Item |
