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Videoconferencing has become a ubiquitous medium for collaborative work. It does suffer however from various drawbacks such as zoom fatigue. This paper addresses the quality of user experience by exploring an enhanced system concept with the capability of ...

Eye contact represents a fundamental element of human social interactions, providing essential non-verbal signals. Traditionally, it has played a crucial role in fostering social bonds during in-person gatherings. However, in the realm of virtual and ...

Mobile phones have become an indispensable part of people's daily lives, closely connected to emotions and needs, making emotional design for phones increasingly crucial. To expand the functionality of smartphones, we have designed ORBO, a robot that ...

Smartphones have become an integral part of people's daily lives, closely linked to emotions and needs, making emotional design increasingly important. Therefore, we designed the robot ORBO, expanding the functionality of smartphones. ORBO focuses on ...

As social virtual reality (VR) becomes more popular, avatars are being designed with realistic behaviors incorporating non-verbal cues like eye contact. However, perceiving eye contact during a conversation can be challenging for people with visual ...

We present a real-time bidirectional communication system that lets two people, separated by distance, experience a face-to-face conversation as if they were copresent. It is the first telepresence system that is demonstrably better than 2D ...

Communication software such as Clubhouse and Zoom has evolved to be an integral part of many people’s daily lives. However, due to network bandwidth constraints and concerns about privacy, cameras in video conferencing are often turned off by ...

Eye contact disorder is one of the typical characteristics of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), and this issue is directly related to the deficiencies in social interaction. In this poster, we present MaskMe, a collaborative game to help ...

Scanning faces is important for social interactions, and maintaining good eye contact carries significant social value. Difficulty with the social use of eye contact constitutes one of the clinical symptoms of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). It has been ...

With the increasing use of social robots in real environments, one of the areas of research requiring more attention is the study of human-robot interaction (HRI) when a person and robot are moving close to each other. Understanding effective ways to ...

Eye contact is an important non-verbal cue in social signal processing and promising as a measure of overt attention in human-object interactions and attentive user interfaces. However, robust detection of eye contact across different users, gaze ...

Eye contact is a crucial element of non-verbal communication that signifies interest, attention, and participation in social interactions. As a result, measures of eye contact arise in a variety of applications such as the assessment of the social ...

To precisely understand human gaze behaviors in three-party conversations, this work is dedicated to look into whether the speaker can be reliably identified from the interlocutors in a three-party conversation on the basis of the interactive behaviors ...

Current eLearning systems enable streaming of live lectures to distant students facilitating a live instructor-student interaction. However, studies have shown that there exists a marked divide in local students’ (student present in the teacher’s location)...

Several studies suggest that robots can play a relevant role to address Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD). This paper presents a humanoid social robot-assisted behavioral system based on a therapeutic multilevel treatment protocol customized to improve ...

In face-to-face communication, eye gaze is integral to a conversation to supplement verbal language. The sighted often uses eye gaze to convey nonverbal information in social interactions, which a blind conversation partner cannot access and react to ...

Gaze signals are frequently used by the sighted in social interactions as visual cues. However, these signals and cues are hardly accessible for people with visual disability. A conceptual design of E-Gaze glasses is proposed, assistive to create gaze ...

In this paper, we propose spatial communication between a virtual agent and a user through common space in both virtual world and real space. For this purpose, we propose the virtual agent system SCoViA, which renders a synchronized synthesis of the ...

Videoconferencing systems available for end users do not allow for eye-to-eye contact between participants. The different locations of video camera and video display make it impossible to directly look into each others eyes. This issue is known as the ...

With the aim of constructing a model for predicting the next speaker and the start of the next utterance in multi-party meetings, we focus on the timing structure of the eye contact between the speaker, the listener, and the next speaker: who looks at ...