TY - GEN
T1 - FrontFace
T2 - 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, MobileHCI 2017
AU - Chan, Liwei
AU - Minamizawa, Kouta
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan under Grants MOST103-2218-E-002-024-MY3, and also JST ACCEL Embodied Media Project.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Association for Computing Machinery.
PY - 2017/9/4
Y1 - 2017/9/4
N2 - A head-mounted display (HMD) immerses users in a virtual world, but separates them from outsiders in the real world. We present FrontFace, which is a novel HMD that combines an eye-tracker with a front-facing screen, to lower the communication barrier between HMD users and outsiders. The front-facing screen reveals user attention (e.g., the users eye motions) and user presence in the virtual or real world by displaying the scene in the virtual world or a skin background respectively, enabling eye-contact interactions between the HMD user and the outsiders. FrontFace has the following benefits. Firstly, it communicates the presence of the HMD user to outsiders; secondly, it reveals the player's visual attention by introducing the HMD users originally occluded eye motions, enabling outsiders to make sense of the HMD user's reaction in the virtual world or the real world. Three interactive techniques for the outsiders to initiate communication to HMD users are proposed: they are tap-trigger, hand-gesture trigger, and voice-trigger interactions. A small focus group provided feedback.
AB - A head-mounted display (HMD) immerses users in a virtual world, but separates them from outsiders in the real world. We present FrontFace, which is a novel HMD that combines an eye-tracker with a front-facing screen, to lower the communication barrier between HMD users and outsiders. The front-facing screen reveals user attention (e.g., the users eye motions) and user presence in the virtual or real world by displaying the scene in the virtual world or a skin background respectively, enabling eye-contact interactions between the HMD user and the outsiders. FrontFace has the following benefits. Firstly, it communicates the presence of the HMD user to outsiders; secondly, it reveals the player's visual attention by introducing the HMD users originally occluded eye motions, enabling outsiders to make sense of the HMD user's reaction in the virtual world or the real world. Three interactive techniques for the outsiders to initiate communication to HMD users are proposed: they are tap-trigger, hand-gesture trigger, and voice-trigger interactions. A small focus group provided feedback.
KW - Spectator experience
KW - Virtual reality
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U2 - 10.1145/3098279.3098548
DO - 10.1145/3098279.3098548
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85030323844
T3 - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, MobileHCI 2017
BT - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, MobileHCI 2017
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Y2 - 4 September 2017 through 7 September 2017
ER -