EYERES - Forecasting, Evoking und Exploiting Eye Movements and Blinks for Redirection Systems

运动，从一个位置移动到另一个位置的行为，是我们日常生活中最基本和最重要的活动之一。运动的控制依赖于本体感觉、前庭和视觉的持续多感觉反馈。使用自然运动在虚拟现实（VR）中导航，其中用户沉浸在计算机生成的虚拟环境（VE）中，仍然是一个挑战，因为通常可用的跟踪空间是有限的，因此限制了VE中的可行走空间。重定向行走（RDW）是一种技术，它引导用户的物理路径，这可能会有所不同，他们在VE中感知的路径，因此，提供了一个潜在的解决方案，这个问题。然而，目前的RDW技术仍然需要大量的空间。当试图理解运动的视觉控制时，眼球运动是重要的，然而，在RDW的最新实现中，眼球运动被忽略。在这个项目中，我们建议利用这种关系的各个方面来改进沉浸式VR技术。该项目的目标是更好地理解沉浸式VR中眼球运动、眨眼以及凝视和运动的复杂关系，以改善虚拟环境中的自然行走体验。在计算机科学和心理学之间的跨学科研究合作中，我们计划预测，唤起和利用RDW系统的眼动和眨眼。

Locomotion, the act of moving from one location to another, is one of the most fundamental and important activities of our daily life. Control of locomotion relies on constant multisensory feedback by proprioceptive, vestibular and visual senses. Using natural locomotion to navigate in virtual reality (VR), in which users are immersed in computer-generated virtual environments (VEs), remains a challenge since usually the available tracked space is limited and, therefore, limits the walkable space in the VE. Redirected walking (RDW) is a technique, which guides users on physical paths, which might vary from the paths they perceive in the VE, and, therefore, provides a potential solution to this problem. However, current RDW techniques still require significant space. Eye movements are important when trying to understand the visual control of locomotion, however, in the most current implementations of RDW, eye movements are neglected. In this project, we propose to leverage aspects of this relationship to improve immersive VR technology. The goal of this project is to better understand the complex relation of eye movements, blinks as well as gaze and locomotion in immersive VR to improve natural-walking experiences in VEs. In interdisciplinary research cooperation between computer science and psychology, we plan to forecast, evoke and exploit eye movements and blinks for RDW systems.