Schedule

16.03.2024, 13:30 - 17:00, Room: Fantasia D

13:30 - 13:35

Opening

13:35 - 14:30

Keynote: Using Eye-Gaze for Design and Art in VR

by Dr. Mayra Donaji Barrera Machuca, VERTEX Lab, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

Bio: Dr. Barrera Machuca is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Computer Science at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. Her current research areas include using multimodal interactions for 3D sketching and understanding human performance with virtual objects. She also proposes new user interfaces that improve the accuracy of people working inside virtual environments and studies skill transfers between virtual reality and real life. Dr. Barrera Machuca’s work has generated considerable interest in the community, including winning the 2021 VGTC Virtual Reality Best Dissertation Award.

14:30 - 14:45

Small Coffee Break

14:45 - 15:50

We have prepared three talks adressing the areas of gaze-based interaction, eye-tracking hardware, and gaze behavior:

Paper 1: "Cone&Bubble: Evaluating Combinations of Gaze, Head and Hand Pointing for Target Selection in Dense 3D Environments" by Sidenmark et al. (University of Toronto)
Paper 2: "Unveiling Variations: A Comparative Study of VR Headsets Regarding Eye Tracking Volume, Gaze Accuracy, and Precision" by Hou et al. (Lancaster University)
Paper 3: "Patterns in Motion: On Head- and Non-Head Movers in VR during Viewport Control" by Lee et al. (Lancaster University)

15:30 - 16:00

Large Coffee Break