Effects of Hybrid and Synthetic Social Gaze in Avatar-Mediated Interactions

Daniel Roth, Peter Kullmann, Gary Bente, Dominik Gall, Marc Erich Latoschik

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Abstract

Human gaze is a crucial element in social interactions and therefore an important topic for social Augmented, Mixed, and Virtual Reality (AR, MR, VR) applications. In this paper we systematically compare four modes of gaze transmission: (1) natural gaze, (2) hybrid gaze, which combines natural gaze transmission with a social gaze model, (3) synthesized gaze, which combines a random gaze transmission with a social gaze model, and (4) purely random gaze. Investigating dyadic interactions, results show a linear trend for the perception of virtual rapport, trust, and interpersonal attraction, suggesting that these measures increase with higher naturalness and social adequateness of the transmission mode. We further investigated the perception of realism as well as the resulting gaze behavior of the avatars and the human participants. We discuss these results and their implications.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdjunct Proceedings - 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, ISMAR-Adjunct 2018
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages103-108
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781538675922
DOIs
StatePublished - 2 Jul 2018
Externally publishedYes
Event17th IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, ISMAR-Adjunct 2018 - Munich, Germany
Duration: 16 Oct 201820 Oct 2018

Publication series

NameAdjunct Proceedings - 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, ISMAR-Adjunct 2018

Conference

Conference17th IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, ISMAR-Adjunct 2018
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityMunich
Period16/10/1820/10/18

Keywords

  • Human-centered computing
  • Visualization
  • Visualization techniques

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