Gaze Mirroring Interaction to Make Latent Interest Explicit and Its Evaluation

人们如何将潜在的认知状态外显？我们着眼于共同注意，这是一个理解他人心理的过程，并提出了一种人类与自己建立的自我反馈互动。在这项工作中，我们设计了凝视镜像，即拟人化的主体通过模仿用户的同步和同情的凝视行为来主动建立与用户的共同注意。我们证实，在用户从一些对象中进行选择的实验情景中，用户凝视感兴趣的视觉对象的时间更长。通过这项工作，我们还在人类认知状态、凝视行为和视觉环境背景之间的关系建模方面取得了重要的发现。

How do people make latent cognitive state explicit? We have focused on a joint attention which is a process to understand others' mind and proposed a self-feedback interaction that human establishes it with oneself. In this work, we designed Gaze Mirroring that an anthropomorphic agent actively establishes the joint attention with the user by imitating his/her gaze behavior in synchronization and sympathy. We confirmed that the user gazed longer at a visual object of interest in an experimental situation where the user made a choice from some objects. Through this work, we also yielded important findings to model relationships between human cognitive state, gaze behavior, and visual environmental context.