Researchers have long been interested in the role of eye gaze in human machine interaction. It has been used as a pointing mechanism in direct manipulation interfaces, for example, to assist users with "locked-in syndrome". It has also been used to reflect information needs in web search and tailor information presentation. Based on joint attention indicated by eye gaze, it has been used as a facilitator in computer supported human-human communication. In conversational interfaces, eye gaze has been used to improve language understanding and intention recognition. It has also been incorporated in multimodal behavior of embodied conversational agents. Recent work on human robot interaction has further explored eye gaze in incremental language processing, visual scene processing, and conversation engagement and grounding. Given the recent advances in eye tracking technology and the availability of non-intrusive and high performance eye tracking devices, there has never been a better time to explore new opportunities to incorporate eye gaze in intelligent and natural human machine communication.
This workshop brought researchers from academia and industry together to share recent advances and discuss research directions and opportunities for next generation of human machine interaction that incorporate eye gaze. The workshop program consists of nineteen papers addressing a range of interesting topics from applications of tracking user eye gaze in human machine conversation to automatic control of gaze behaviors in artificial agents.
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Quantitative study of geological target spotting with the use of eye tracking
- Tristan Chadwick,
- Tele Tan,
- Geoff West,
- David A. McMeekin,
- Eun-Jung Holden,
- Mike Dentith,
- T. Campbell McCuaig
In this paper we describe the use of eye tracking to quantitatively evaluate and analyse the variations in data interpretation performed by various geoscientists, measuring this against their ability to spot geological targets. We also describe an ...
Hands-free data manipulation for visual inspection system by using temporal characteristics of saccades
In some industrial inspection processes, multi-process, handling workers are required for entering the results of visual inspection tests without using their hands, for efficiency or hygiene reasons. We developed a hands-free visual inspection system by ...
Analyzing human gaze path during an interactive optimization task
Interactive Evolutionary Computation (IEC) community aims at reducing user's fatigue during an optimization task involving subjective criteria: a set of graphic potential solutions are simultaneously shown to a user which task is to identify most ...
Putting gaze into context: a framework for analyzing gaze behavior in interactive and dynamic environments
Gaze data contains valuable information about user's cognitive processes during execution of a task. In order to use this information, e.g., for studying user's strategies or for designing new gaze-based interaction techniques for HCI, gaze data needs ...
Eye-gaze interfaces using electro-oculography (EOG)
Using electro-oculography (EOG), two types of eye-gaze interfaces have been developed; "EOG Pointer" and "EOG Switch". The former enables a user to move a computer cursor or to control a machine using only eye-gaze, regardless of drifting signal and ...
An empirical study of eye-gaze behaviors: towards the estimation of conversational engagement in human-agent communication
In face-to-face conversations, speakers are continuously checking whether the listener is engaged in the conversation by monitoring the partner's eye-gaze behaviors. In this study, focusing on eye-gaze as information of estimating user's conversational ...
Using eye gaze in intelligent interactive imaging training
Medical imaging, particularly in breast cancer screening, requires very skilled interpretation only carried out by specially trained radiologists. A key issue is how to train such skilled behaviour? Recent changes to breast imaging has seen the ...
Robust pupil detection for gaze-based user interface
Eye tracker has the potential to play an assistive role in human computer interaction. However, the operation is easily hindered by excessive corneal reflection and noise which prevent correct detection and precise localization of the pupil. In this ...
Mutual information as a variable to differentiate the roles of gaze in the multimodal interface
In natural interaction, gaze assumes a variety of roles that may need distinguishing between in a gaze-contingent interface. Information from other modalities has potential to make distinction easier. In this study, Mutual Information (MI) is proposed ...
Head pose estimation with one camera, in uncalibrated environments
Head pose together with eye gaze are a reliable indication regarding the estimate of the focus of attention of a person standing in front of a camera, with applications ranging from driver's attention estimation to meeting environments. As gaze ...
Autonomous development of gaze control for natural human-robot interaction
Gaze behavior is one of the most important nonverbal behaviors during human-human close encounters. For this reason, many researchers in natural human-robot interaction focus on developing robots that can achieve human-like gaze behavior. Many ...
Interacting with a gaze-aware virtual character
In this paper, we present the user's attentive state interpreted through eye gaze while interacting with a virtual character. The underlying narrative in which the approach was tested is based on a classical XIXth century psychological novel: Madame ...
Consumer decision patterns through eye gaze analysis
Eye tracking technology is a powerful tool used in the HCI field to measure the attention of users. This has of course numerous favorable financial consequences, since it helps developers of e-commerce websites to redesign their interfaces and layouts ...
Integrating domain knowledge with user eye gaze in automated word acquisition for conversational interfaces
Most conversation systems tend to fail when unexpected words are encountered. To overcome this problem, conversational systems must be able to learn new words automatically during human machine conversation. Motivated by psycholinguistic findings on eye ...
Adaptive user interface of product recommendation based on eye-tracking
To reduce the intrusive interaction and workload for the product recommendations, we seek implicit methods to indicate users' preferences and recommend desirable products on the interface automatically. In this paper, we validate our approach with ...
Observing an image, storing an image
By means of an eye-tracker and a home-made software of analysis, we have investigated the relationship among the ability of the humans to memorize and recognize images (and their modifications), the characteristics of the testers (strategy of ...
Visual perception, awareness and self-control: the brentano-müller-lyer illusion
In this paper we present a study on visual perception, awareness and self-control, based on the visual exploration of the classical Brentano-Müller Lyer illusion and of some of its variants. The study has been realized with the help of self-made ...
The text 2.0 framework: writing web-based gaze-controlled realtime applications quickly and easily
We created a simple-to-use framework to construct gaze-responsive applications using web technology focussing on text. A plugin enables any compatible browser to interpret a new set of gaze handlers that behave similar to existing HTML and JavaScript ...
On eye-gaze and turn-taking
In this paper we describe our eye-tracking data collection and preliminary experiments concerning the relation between eyegazing and turn-taking in natural human-human conversations, and how these observations can be extended to multimodal human-machine ...
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Acceptance Rates
Year | Submitted | Accepted | Rate |
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GazeIn '14 | 8 | 8 | 100% |
GazeIn '13 | 13 | 11 | 85% |
Overall | 21 | 19 | 90% |