Comparison of head gaze and head and eye gaze within an immersive environment

摘要

For efficient collaboration between participants, eye gaze is seen as being critical for interaction. Teleconferencing\udsystems such as the AcessGrid allow users to meet across geographically disparate rooms but as of now there seems no substitute for face to face meetings. This paper gives an overview of some preliminary work that looks towards integrating eye gaze into an immersive Collaborative Virtual Environment and assessing the impact that this\udwould have on interaction between the users of such a system.\udAn experiment was conducted to assess the difference between users abilities to judge what objects an avatar is\udlooking at with only head gaze being viewed and also with\udeye and head gaze data being displayed. The results from\udthe experiment show that eye gaze is of vital importance to\udthe subjects correctly identifying what a person is looking\udat in an immersive virtual environment. This is followed by\uda description of how the eye tracking system has been integrated into an immersive collaborative virtual environment and some preliminary results from the use of such a system.