Speech, gaze and head motion in a face-to-face collaborative task

Sascha Fagel (1) , Gérard Bailly (1)

1 GIPSA-MAGIC - GIPSA - Machines parlantes, Gestes oro-faciaux, Interaction Face-à-face, Communication augmentée

In the present work we observe two subjects interacting in a collaborative task on a shared environment. During the experiment we measured the task completion time under two different conditions: either one interactant is wearing dark glasses and hence his/her gaze is not visible by the other one or no interactant is wearing dark glasses. The results show that if one subject wears dark glasses while telling the other subject the position of a certain object, the other subject needs significantly more time to locate and move this object. Hence, eye gaze - when visible - of one subject looking at a certain object speeds up the location of the cube by the other subject.

Mots clés: Face-to-face interaction; gaze

Domaines: Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]; Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]

Sascha Fagel, Gérard Bailly. Speech, gaze and head motion in a face-to-face collaborative task. ESSV 2010 - 21st Conference on Electronic Speech Signal Processing, Sep 2010, Berlin, Germany. ⟨hal-00523906⟩