Assumptions about the positioning of virtual stimuli affect gaze direction estimates during Augmented Reality based interactions.

ABSTRACT: We investigated gaze direction determination in dyadic interactions mediated by an Augmented Reality (AR) head-mounted-display. With AR, virtual content is overlaid on top of the real-world scene, offering unique data visualization and interaction opportunities. A drawback of AR however is related to uncertainty regarding the AR user's focus of attention in social-collaborative settings: an AR user looking in our direction might either be paying attention to us or to augmentations positioned somewhere in between. In two psychophysical experiments, we assessed what impact assumptions concerning the positioning of virtual content attended by an AR user have on other people's sensitivity to their gaze direction. In the first experiment we found that gaze discrimination was better when the par

SUBMITTER: Binetti N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6384932 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature