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Altering Non-verbal Cues to Implicitly Direct Attention in Social VR

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SUI '21: Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction

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In this work we explore a concept system that alters the virtual eye movements without the user’s awareness, and whether this can affect social attention among others. Our concept augments the real movements with subtle redirected gazes to people, that occur in intervals to remain unnoticed. We present a user study with groups of people conversing on a topic, and measure the level of visual attention among users. Compared to a baseline of natural eye movements, we find that the method has indeed affected the overall attention in the group, but in unexpected ways. Our work points to a new way to exploit the inherent role of eyes in social virtual reality.

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SUI '21: Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction

November 2021

206 pages

ISBN:9781450390910

DOI:10.1145/3485279

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Francisco Ortega
Colorado State University, USA
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Robert Teather
Carleton University, Canada
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Gerd Bruder
University of Central Florida, USA
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Thammathip Piumsomboon
University of Canterbury, New Zealand
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Benjamin Weyers
University of Trier, Germany
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Anil Ufuk Batmaz
Kadir Has University, Turkey
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Kyle Johnsen
University of Georgia, USA
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Christoph Borst
University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA

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