Eye-Gaze Interaction for Cognitive Benefits
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Date:
Online Kick-Off: Monday, April 27th, 12 p.m.
Type:
Lab Course (Forschungsprojekt)
Description
Important information:
All meetings will take place online!
Exception: Implementation with VR hardware in small groups in the laboratory.
Additionally, please take note of our information regarding our lab courses in the summer term 2020
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This research project will investigate the question how eye-gaze interaction affect cognitive performance. The advantages and disadvantages of eye-gaze interaction compared to manual interactions with conventional input devices, such as controller or mouse, which are controlled by hand, are still insufficiently examined. Studies showed that gaze-based interactions can outperform mouse interactions regarding immersion, as it felt more natural to the participants in the game world (Smith & Graham, 2006). On the other hand, Hülsmann et al. (2011) showed that eye-gaze interaction compared to the input with a controller made the participants feel more exhausted, less immersed and have less joy of use.
Furthermore, studies show that games can enhance positive affect and a high level of arousal due to a high level of immersion. Positive affect does not only improve the player experience, but a high level of arousal can encourage cognitive benefits (Gao & Mandryk, 2012).
Taken these results together, two assumption can be made about how the use of eye-gaze interaction can affect the users experience and therefore their cognitive performance.
On the one hand, they could be more immersed, which in turn would result in a higher level of arousal, which would indicate improved cognitive performance. On the other hand, they could show a lower cognitive performance due to the high effort of eye-gaze control.
Therefore, within this research project a game idea should be created that includes two different control methods (Hand vs. Eye) and implemented using Unity 3D and the HTC VIVE Pro Eye. In a subsequent empirical evaluation, which will also be part of the project, the implementation will be used to answer the central questions of the effect of eye-gaze interaction on cognitive performance and examine the derived hypotheses.
Online Kick-Off Date: Monday, April 27th, 12:00 p.m.
(To participate, please send an application to Linda Graf)
Target Audience
MA Komedia, MAI