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GazeTorch: Enabling Gaze Awareness in Collaborative Physical Tasks

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Deepak Akkil,

Jobin Mathew James,

Poika Isokoski,

Jari KangasAuthors Info & Claims

CHI EA '16: Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 1151 - 1158

https://doi.org/10.1145/2851581.2892459

Published: 07 May 2016 Publication History

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We present GazeTorch, a novel interface that provides gaze awareness during remote collaboration on physical tasks. GazeTorch uses a spotlight to display gaze information of the remote helper on the physical task space of the worker. We conducted a preliminary user study to evaluate user's subjective opinion on the quality of collaboration, using GazeTorch and a camera-only setup. Our preliminary results suggest that the participants felt GazeTorch made collaboration easier, made referencing and identifying of objects effortless, and improved the worker's confidence that the task was completed accurately. We conclude by presenting some novel application scenarios for the concept of augmenting real-time gaze information in the physical world.

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May 2016

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DOI:10.1145/2851581

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