Gaze awareness and interaction support in presentations

: Gaze Awareness and Interaction Support in Presentations Kar-Han Tan, Dan Gelb, Ramin Samadani, Ian Robinson, Bruce Culbertson, John Apostolopoulos HP Laboratories HPL-2010-187 Distance learning, Gaze awareness, Paralanguage, Presentation recording, Remote presentation, Telepresence Modern digital presentation systems use rich media to bring highly sophisticated information visualization and highly effective storytelling capabilities to classrooms and corporate boardrooms. In this paper we address a number of issues that arise when the ubiquitous computer-projector setup is used in large venues like the cavernous auditoriums and hotel ballrooms often used in large scale academic meetings and industrial conferences. First, when the presenter is addressing a large audience the slide display needs to be very large and placed high enough so that it is clearly visible from all corners of the room. This makes it impossible for a presenter to walk up to the display and interact with the dis...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: MM
• Authors: Kar-Han Tan, Dan Gelb, Ramin Samadani, Ian N. Robinson, W. Bruce Culbertson, John Apostolopoulos
• Keywords: Gaze, MM 2010, Multimedia, Presentation, Presenter