Understanding User Attention In VR Using Gaze Controlled Games

Murtada Dohan; Mu Mu

doi:10.1145/3317697.3325118

Understanding User Attention In VR Using Gaze Controlled Games

Murtada Dohan, Mu Mu^*

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Abstract

Understanding user’s intent has a pivotal role in developing immersive and personalised media applications. This paper introduces our recent research and user experiments towards interpreting user attention in virtual reality (VR). We designed a gaze-controlled Unity VR game for this study and implemented additional libraries to bridge raw eye-tracking data with game elements and mechanics.The experimental data show distinctive patterns of fixation spans which are paired with user interviews to help us explore characteristics of user attention.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for TV and Online Video
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	167-173
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-6017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3317697.3325118
Publication status	Published - 4 Jun 2019
Event	ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for TV and Online Video (TVX'19) - Duration: 6 Jun 2019 → …

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Conference	ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for TV and Online Video (TVX'19)
Period	6/06/19 → …

Bibliographical note

Murtada Dohan and Mu Mu. 2019. Understanding User Attention In VR Using Gaze Controlled Games. In ACM
International Conference on Interactive Experiences for TV and Online Video (TVX ’19), June 5–7, 2019, Salford
(Manchester), United Kingdom. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 7 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3317697.3325118

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Keywords

Eye tracking
Gaze
Serious games
User attention
Virtual reality

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