Look together

Look together: Using gaze for assisting co-located collaborative search

Zhang, Y. (TU Delft Pattern Recognition and Bioinformatics)
Pfeuffer, Ken (University of Lancaster)
Chong, Ming Ki (Hong Kong)
Alexander, Jason (University of Lancaster)
Bulling, Andreas (Max Planck Institut für Informatik)
Gellersen, Hans (University of Lancaster)

2017-02-01

Gaze information provides indication of users focus which complements remote collaboration tasks, as distant users can see their partner’s focus. In this paper, we apply gaze for co-located collaboration, where users’ gaze locations are presented on the same display, to help collaboration between partners. We integrated various types of gaze indicators on the user interface of a collaborative search system, and we conducted two user studies to understand how gaze enhances coordination and communication between co-located users. Our results show that gaze indeed enhances co-located collaboration, but with a trade-off between visibility of gaze indicators and user distraction. Users acknowledged that seeing gaze indicators eases communication, because it let them be aware of their partner’s interests and attention. However, users can be reluctant to share their gaze information due to trust and privacy, as gaze potentially divulges their interests.

Collaborative task
Eye tracking
Gaze awareness
Gaze interaction
Large pervasive display
Multi-user

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:f930539b-e9ca-4ba0-aeb2-9f5a71a70004

https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-016-0969-x

1617-4909

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 21 (1), 173-186

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© 2017 Y. Zhang, Ken Pfeuffer, Ming Ki Chong, Jason Alexander, Andreas Bulling, Hans Gellersen