doi: 10.18178/ijfcc.2016.5.1.440
Conveying Gaze-Awareness by Using a Faint Light with a Video-Conferencing System
Mikifumi Shikida
- Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Nomi, Ishikawa, 923-1292 Japan.
Abstract
A method for conveying gaze-awareness by using afaint light is proposed. It is useful for conference-room meetingsin which only a few participants are using a commercialvideo-conferencing system at a remote site. The proposedmethod involves the following steps. First, the gaze direction ofthe remote participant is detected; second, and a faint light isshone on the corresponding participant at the local site. Theproposed method was experimentally evaluated in the case oftwo types of meetings under the three conditions: face-to-face,video conference, and video conference with gaze-awareness.When the video-conferencing system supports gaze-awarenessby utilizing a faint light, the local participants gaze at the remoteparticipant in the same way as they gaze at other localparticipants. The method supports natural communication via acommercial video-conferencing system at low implementationcost without the need for redesigning the shared display.
Keywords
- Eye contact
- gaze-awareness
- shared display
- video conference
How to Cite
Mikifumi Shikida, "Conveying Gaze-Awareness by Using a Faint Light with a Video-Conferencing System," International Journal of Future Computer and Communication, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 38-42, 2016. https://doi.org/ 10.18178/ijfcc.2016.5.1.440
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Copyright © 2016 by the authors. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited (CC BY 4.0).