Establishing remote conversations through eye contact with physical awareness proxies

We present a mechanism for initiating mediated conversations through eye contact. An eyePHONE is a physical proxy of a remote individual that senses and conveys attention using an eye tracking device and a pair of actuated eyeballs. Users may initiate calls by jointly looking at each other's eyePHONE. We discuss how this allows participants to implement some of the basic social rules of face-to-face conversations in mediated conversations. Keywords Attentive User Interfaces, Mediated Communication, Eye Tracking, Alternative Input.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: CHI
• Authors: Baha Jabarin, James Wu, Roel Vertegaal, Lenko Grigorov
• Keywords: CHI 2003, Eye Tracking Device, Face-to-face Conversations, Human Computer Interaction, Mediated Conversations