Effects of gaze interaction on user experience and immersion: a paper and a conference presentation
As I mentioned earlier, we started working on gaze-aware interfaces during autumn 2006. One of the fruits of that research has now been published in the proceedings of the International Conference on Computers in Education, ICCE 2008 (paper is here).
We did a simple questionnaire-based analysis. The results of the analysis show some promises for implementing gaze-augmented problem-solving interfaces. Users of gaze-augmented interaction felt more immersed than the users of other two modes – dwell-time based and computer mouse. Immersion, engagement, and user-experience in general are important aspects in educational interfaces; learners engage in completing the tasks and, for example, when facing a difficult task they do not give up that easily. We also did analysis of the strategies, and we will report on those soon.
We could not attend the conference, but didn’t want to disappoint eventual audience. We thus decided to send a video instead of us. Have a look at it here. It feels that making the video was actually more time demanding than going to Taiwan and delivering the presentation. In addition, the lack of feedback is also worrying. Finally, we are not really media professionals, and you can hear and see it in the video (feedback of what could have been done better is welcome, use comments please!)
The presentation was useful for me. I think the voice was more kind of fast for a presentation. I can understand that since it was a video and to be streamed online that needed to be shortened so it has to be fast, but it sounded like computer reading text to me rather than human beings with some accents on the text being spoken.
Also i would like to make some reference to this presentation and papers that supports these facts. Can i have a copy of the paper anywhere. Direct link would be helpful.
Sorry the paper in abouve reply means the feedback , or response that you might have got after the paper has been presented.
Hi, good you found the paper. We haven’t got much feedback on this paper yet, some other analysis is underway.