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

Daniel Roth, Peter Kullmann, Gary Bente, Dominik Gall, and Marc Erich Latoschik. Effects of hybrid and synthetic social gaze in avatar-mediated interactions. In Adjunct Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium for Mixed and Augmented Reality 2018 (To appear). 2018.
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@inproceedings{ismar2018_pcs_poster_1117,
    author = "Roth, Daniel and Kullmann, Peter and Bente, Gary and Gall, Dominik and Latoschik, Marc Erich",
    title = "Effects of Hybrid and Synthetic Social Gaze in Avatar-Mediated Interactions",
    year = "2018",
    booktitle = "Adjunct Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium for Mixed and Augmented Reality 2018 (To appear)"
}

Abstract

Human gaze is a crucial element in social interactions and thus an important topic for social Augmented, Mixed, and Virtual Reality (AR,MR,VR) applications. In this paper we systematically compare four different 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 avatar-mediated interactions, we found a linear trend for the perception of virtual rapport, trust, and interpersonal attraction, suggesting that these perceptual 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.

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