Virtual gaze: Exploring use of gaze as rich interaction method with virtual agent in interactive virtual reality content

Stevanus Kevin; Yun Suen Pai; Kai Steven Kunze

doi:10.1145/3281505.3281587

Virtual gaze: Exploring use of gaze as rich interaction method with virtual agent in interactive virtual reality content

Stevanus Kevin, Yun Suen Pai, Kai Steven Kunze

Graduate School of Media Design

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1 Citation (Scopus)

Abstract

Nonverbal cues, especially eye gaze, plays an important role in our daily communication, not just as an indicator of interest, but also as a method to convey information to another party. In this work, we propose a simulation of human eye gaze in Virtual Reality content to improve immersion of interaction between user and virtual agent. We developed an eye-tracking integrated interactive narrative content with a focus on player’s interaction with gaze aware virtual agent, which is capable of reacting towards the player’s gaze to simulate real human-to-human communication in VR environment and conducted an initial study to measure user’s reaction.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - VRST 2018
Subtitle of host publication	24th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology
Editors	Stephen N. Spencer
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450360869
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3281505.3281587
Publication status	Published - 2018 Nov 28
Event	24th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, VRST 2018 - Tokyo, Japan Duration: 2018 Nov 28 → 2018 Dec 1

Other

Other	24th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, VRST 2018
Country	Japan
City	Tokyo
Period	18/11/28 → 18/12/1

Keywords

Eye tracking
Game
Human computer interaction
Virtual agent
Virtual reality

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software

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Virtual gaze : Exploring use of gaze as rich interaction method with virtual agent in interactive virtual reality content. / Kevin, Stevanus; Pai, Yun Suen; Kunze, Kai Steven.

Proceedings - VRST 2018: 24th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology. ed. / Stephen N. Spencer. Association for Computing Machinery, 2018. 3281587.

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Kevin, S, Pai, YS & Kunze, KS 2018, Virtual gaze: Exploring use of gaze as rich interaction method with virtual agent in interactive virtual reality content. in SN Spencer (ed.), Proceedings - VRST 2018: 24th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology., 3281587, Association for Computing Machinery, 24th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, VRST 2018, Tokyo, Japan, 18/11/28. https://doi.org/10.1145/3281505.3281587

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