Inferring Interactivity From Gaze Patterns During Triadic Person-Object-Agent Interactions.

ABSTRACT: Observing others' gaze informs us about relevant matters in the environment. Humans' sensitivity to gaze cues and our ability to use this information to focus our own attention is crucial to learning, social coordination, and survival. Gaze can also be a deliberate social signal which captures and directs the gaze of others toward an object of interest. In the current study, we investigated whether the intention to actively communicate one's own attentional focus can be inferred from the dynamics of gaze alone. We used a triadic gaze interaction paradigm based on the recently proposed classification of attentional states and respective gaze patterns in person-object-person interactions, the so-called "social gaze space (SGS)." Twenty-eight participants interacted with a computer controlled

SUBMITTER: Jording M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6712091 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature