Detecting eye contact using wearable eye-tracking glasses

Zhefan Ye, Yin Li, Alireza Fathi, Yi Han, Agata Rozga, Gregory D. Abowd, James M. Rehg

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Abstract

We describe a system for detecting moments of eye contact between an adult and a child, based on a single pair of gazetracking glasses which are worn by the adult. Our method utilizes commercial gaze tracking technology to determine the adult's point of gaze, and combines this with computer vision analysis of video of the child's face to determine their gaze direction. Eye contact is then detected as the event of simultaneous, mutual looking at faces by the dyad. We report encouraging findings from an initial implementation and evaluation of this approach.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationUbiComp'12 - Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages699-704
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)9781450312240
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes
Event14th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2012 - Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Duration: Sep 5 2012Sep 8 2012

Publication series

NameUbiComp'12 - Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing

Other

Other14th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2012
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityPittsburgh, PA
Period9/5/129/8/12

Keywords

  • Attention
  • Autism
  • Developmental disorders
  • Eye contact
  • Wearable eye-tracking

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software

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