Communicating Eye-Gaze across a distance: comparing an Eye-Gaze enabled immersive collaborative virtual environment, aligned video conferencing, and being together

Proceedings - IEEE Virtual Reality

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 135-142

  Roberts, David ^a   Wolff, Robin ^a   Rae, John ^b   Steed, Anthony ^c   Aspin, Rob ^a   McIntyre, Moira ^a   Pena, Adriana ^a   Oyekoya, Oyewole ^c   Steptoe, Will ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROEHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Eye Tracking; Gaze Tracking; Immersive collaborative virtual environments; Tele Presence.; Video conferencing

Indexed keywords

CO-LOCATED; COLLABORATIVE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT; COLOCATION; EYE TRACKERS; EYE-GAZE; EYE-TRACKING; FORMAL EXPERIMENTS; FREE-VIEWPOINT VIDEO; GAZE-TRACKING; IMMERSIVE; IMMERSIVE COLLABORATIVE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; OPTIMAL SETTING; PERSPECTIVE DISTORTION; PILOT EXPERIMENT; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; TELE-PRESENCE.;

DISPLAY DEVICES; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

VIDEO CONFERENCING;

EID: 67649804064     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VR.2009.4811013     Document Type: Conference Paper

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