Gaze Interactions in Shared Spaces (C01)

• Subject Area: General, Cognitive and Mathematical Psychology ; Human Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience
• Term: from 2020 to 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 416228727

The project aims at understanding gaze-based interactions among humans and artificial agents. First, we quantify how well humans can recognize other humans’ gaze direction from some distance. Second, we train an artificial system to reach human-like performance in this task. Third, we measure how humans understand each other’s gaze to establish joint attention in real-world and virtual-reality settings. Fourth, we test the effectiveness and efficiency of various gaze displays to guide human gaze. Finally, we assess the interplay of gaze and gestures in such settings.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1410: Hybrid Societies: Humans Interacting with Embodied Technologies
• Applicant Institution: Technische Universität Chemnitz
• Project Head: Professor Dr. Wolfgang Einhäuser-Treyer