Gaze Mirroring Interaction to Make Latent Interest Explicit and Its Evaluation

人们如何使潜在的认知状态显化？我们关注了共同关注这一理解他人思想的过程，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（Gaze Mirroring），即拟人化智能体通过模仿用户同步和同情的凝视行为，主动与用户建立共同注意。我们证实，在用户从一些对象中做出选择的实验情境中，用户会更长时间地盯着感兴趣的视觉对象。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模型关系方面取得了重要发现。

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.