Eye tracking for avatar eye gaze control during Object-Focused multiparty interaction in immersive collaborative virtual environments

Proceedings - IEEE Virtual Reality

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 83-90

  Steptoe, William ^a   Oyekoya, Oyewole ^a   Murgia, Alessio ^c   Wolff, Robin ^b   Rae, John ^d   Guimaraes, Estefania ^d   Roberts, David ^b   Steed, Anthony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROEHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Avatars; Behavioural realism.; Eye gaze; Eye tracking; Immersive collaborative virtual Environments

Indexed keywords

AVATARS; BEHAVIOURAL REALISM.; EYE GAZE; EYE TRACKING; IMMERSIVE COLLABORATIVE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 67649816308     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VR.2009.4811003     Document Type: Conference Paper

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