Eye gaze patterns in conversations: There is more to conversational agents than meets the eyes

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 301-308

  Vertegaal, Roel ^a   Slagter, Robert ^b   Van Der Veer, Gerrit ^c   Nijholt, Anton ^d  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Telematics Institute   (Netherlands)

^c Vrije Universiteit   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attention based interfaces; Attentive agents; Conversational attention; Eye tracking; Gaze; Multiparty communication

Indexed keywords

CONVERSATIONAL AGENTS; CONVERSATIONAL ATTENTION; CONVERSATIONAL SYSTEMS; EYE TRACKERS; EYE-GAZE; EYE-TRACKING; GAZE; HIGH PROBABILITY; MULTI-PARTY COMMUNICATION; MULTI-PARTY CONVERSATIONS; MULTIUSER ENVIRONMENTS;

PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTING;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

EID: 0035040312     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/365024.365119     Document Type: Conference Paper

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