The background of this study is the generation of natural gaze behaviors
in human-robot multimodal interaction. For that purpose, in this study
we analyzed gaze behaviors of multiple speakers in a dataset containing
three-party conversations, in terms of the reasons/intentions of their
gaze events.
Analyses of the gaze reasons were conducted separately for the
gaze behaviors towards a dialogue partner, and for gaze aversions (i.e.,
gazing away from a person’s face). Analysis on the eyeball movements
during gaze aversions was also conducted. Different distributions for
average durations and gaze direction patterns were observed depending
on the gaze reasons (e.g., in listening mode, speaking mode, towards
dialogue partner’s reactions, in gaze aversions during thinking
and remembering, and during the speaker’s own behaviors like
nodding and laughing).
Cite as: Ishi, C.T., Shintani, T. (2021) Analysis of Eye Gaze Reasons and Gaze Aversions During Three-Party Conversations. Proc. Interspeech 2021, 1972-1976, doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2021-2134
@inproceedings{ishi21_interspeech,
author={Carlos Toshinori Ishi and Taiken Shintani},
title={{Analysis of Eye Gaze Reasons and Gaze Aversions During Three-Party Conversations}},
year=2021,
booktitle={Proc. Interspeech 2021},
pages={1972--1976},
doi={10.21437/Interspeech.2021-2134}
}