TY - JOUR
T1 - Social Glasses
T2 - Simulating Interactive Gaze for Visually Impaired People in Face-to-Face Communication
AU - Qiu, Shi
AU - Hu, Jun
AU - Han, Ting
AU - Osawa, Hirotaka
AU - Rauterberg, Matthias
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Siti Aisyah binti Anas for the effort and expertise in developing the Social glasses system. We also thank Xiang Cheng, Liang Zang, and Zhi Liu to help us organize the participants from Yangzhou Special Education School and Jiangsu College of Tourism to participate in this research project. This research is strongly supported by the China Scholarship Council and facilitated by the Eindhoven University of Technology and the Shanghai Jiao Tong University. The initial prototype was partially helped by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Numbers [JP16K12484] and [JP26118006].
Funding Information:
We thank Siti Aisyah binti Anas for the effort and expertise in developing the Social glasses system. We also thank Xiang Cheng, Liang Zang, and Zhi Liu to help us organize the participants from Yangzhou Special Education School and Jiangsu College of Tourism to participate in this research project. This research is strongly supported by the China Scholarship Council and facilitated by the Eindhoven University of Technology and the Shanghai Jiao Tong University. The initial prototype was partially helped by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Numbers [JP16K12484] and [JP26118006].
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PY - 2020/5/27
Y1 - 2020/5/27
N2 - Eye contact is crucial in social interactions, linking with sincerity and friendliness. However, blind people cannot see and make eye contact when they communicate with sighted people. It influences the involvement of blind people in blind-sighted conversations. Based on this context, we implemented Social glasses with an eye-tracking system, aiming to improve the communication quality between blind and sighted people in face-to-face conversations. Social glasses attempts to simulate the appropriate gaze for blind people, especially establishing the “eye contact” in blind-sighted conversations. To evaluate the impact of the interactive gaze displayed on the Social glasses, we performed dyadic-conversation tests under four experimental conditions (No Gaze, Constant Gaze, Random Gaze, and Interactive Gaze) for 40 participants. Quantitative results showed that the Interactive gaze has a positive impact on improving the communication quality between blind and sighted people, which were consistent with a qualitative analysis of the participants’ comments.
AB - Eye contact is crucial in social interactions, linking with sincerity and friendliness. However, blind people cannot see and make eye contact when they communicate with sighted people. It influences the involvement of blind people in blind-sighted conversations. Based on this context, we implemented Social glasses with an eye-tracking system, aiming to improve the communication quality between blind and sighted people in face-to-face conversations. Social glasses attempts to simulate the appropriate gaze for blind people, especially establishing the “eye contact” in blind-sighted conversations. To evaluate the impact of the interactive gaze displayed on the Social glasses, we performed dyadic-conversation tests under four experimental conditions (No Gaze, Constant Gaze, Random Gaze, and Interactive Gaze) for 40 participants. Quantitative results showed that the Interactive gaze has a positive impact on improving the communication quality between blind and sighted people, which were consistent with a qualitative analysis of the participants’ comments.
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U2 - 10.1080/10447318.2019.1696513
DO - 10.1080/10447318.2019.1696513
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85075709516
SN - 1044-7318
VL - 36
SP - 839
EP - 855
JO - International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction
JF - International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction
IS - 9
ER -