Title
Attention Sharing In A Virtual Environment Attracts Others
Abstract
Virtual reality offers a highly interactive and flexible experience. It has the advantage of enhancing users' understanding and interest as well as the disadvantage of overlooking the main features in a virtual environment. The excessive amount of information and interactive options in most virtual reality settings may cause users to quit exploring before experiencing the entire content of the virtual environment. In this paper, we propose a new method of inherently encouraging users to continue their experience in virtual environments while permitting free exploration through social interactions. The proposed method generates a joint attention by displaying the movement of the position and gaze direction of other concurrent/previous users. We introduced the proposed method into a virtual museum exploring system and demonstrated it in a real museum to evaluate the effectiveness of our method when used by a large number of people. The results showed that the proposed method enhances users' interest and prolongs the experience time of virtual museum exploring.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1007/978-3-319-58524-6_14
HUMAN INTERFACE AND THE MANAGEMENT OF INFORMATION: SUPPORTING LEARNING, DECISION-MAKING AND COLLABORATION, HCI INTERNATIONAL 2017, PT II
Keywords
Field
DocType
Attention, Social interaction, Digital museum, Virtual reality
Social relation,Virtual reality,Virtual machine,Joint attention,Gaze,Computer science,Multimedia,Disadvantage
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
10274
0302-9743
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
15
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Narumi, T.149984.53
Yuta Sakakibara211.10
Tanikawa, T.360695.07
M Hirose41341224.70