Understanding the effect of life-like interface agents through users' eye movements

Helmut Prendinger; Chunling Ma; Jin Yingzi; Arturo Nakasone; Mitsuru Ishizuka

doi:10.1145/1088463.1088484

Understanding the effect of life-like interface agents through users' eye movements

Helmut Prendinger^*, Chunling Ma, Jin Yingzi, Arturo Nakasone, Mitsuru Ishizuka

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Abstract

We motivate an approach to evaluating the utility of life-like interface agents that is based on human eye movements rather than questionnaires. An eye tracker is employed to obtain quantitative evidence of a user's focus of attention. The salient feature of our evaluation strategy is that it allows us to measure important properties of a user's interaction experience on a moment-by-moment basis in addition to a cumulative (spatial) analysis of the user's areas of interest. We describe an empirical study in which we compare attending behavior of subjects watching the presentation of an apartment by three types of media; an animated agent, a text box, and speech only. The investigation of users' eye movements reveals that agent behavior may trigger natural and social interaction behavior of human users.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, ICMI'05
Pages	108-115
Number of pages	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1088463.1088484
Publication status	Published - 2005
Externally published	Yes
Event	Seventh International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, ICMI'05 - Trento Duration: 2005 Oct 4 → 2005 Oct 6

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Other	Seventh International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, ICMI'05
City	Trento
Period	05/10/4 → 05/10/6

Keywords

Animated interface agents
Eye tracking
User study
Web-based presentation

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Prendinger, H, Ma, C, Yingzi, J, Nakasone, A & Ishizuka, M 2005, Understanding the effect of life-like interface agents through users' eye movements. in Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, ICMI'05. pp. 108-115, Seventh International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, ICMI'05, Trento, 05/10/4. https://doi.org/10.1145/1088463.1088484

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