GazeTorch: Enabling Gaze Awareness in Collaborative Physical Tasks
Late-Breaking Works: Collaborative Technologies
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Akkil, Deepak
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James, Jobin Mathew
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Isokoski, Poika
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Kangas, Jari
Extended Abstracts of the ACM CHI'16 Conference on Human Factors in
Computing Systems
2016-05-07
v.2
p.1151-1158
© Copyright 2016 ACM
Summary: 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.