Effects of Hybrid and Synthetic Social Gaze
in Avatar-Mediated Interactions
Adjunct Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), page 103-108. IEEE, ACM, IEEE, ACM, (October 2018)Abstract
Human gaze is a crucial element in social interactions and therefore
an important topic for social Augmented, Mixed, and Virtual Reality
(AR,MR,VR) applications. In this paper we systematically compare
four modes of gaze transmission: (1) natural gaze, (2) hybrid gaze,
which combines natural gaze transmission with a social gaze model,
(3) synthesized gaze, which combines a random gaze transmission
with a social gaze model, and (4) purely random gaze. Investigating
dyadic interactions, results show a linear trend for the perception
of virtual rapport, trust, and interpersonal attraction, suggesting
that these measures increase with higher naturalness and social
adequateness of the transmission mode. We further investigated the
perception of realism as well as the resulting gaze behavior of the
avatars and the human participants. We discuss these results and
their implications.
