Abstract
A previous study reported that the lecturer's avatar of a remote education communication support system with a group gaze model which, the avatar gazed the audience at a rate of 13% right, 60% center, 27% left in the virtual classroom, could provide effectiveness for group interaction and communication, especially sense of unity. We believe that a reason of the result is explained by an experimental result, lecturer in the real class room gazes longer duration to the left side than to the right side. In this study, we investigated relationship between duration time of gazing and experimental tasks assigned to the participants. Results show that gazing time depends on the experimental tasks, and two tasks brought left and right deviation. Furthermore, we discussed the reason that the group gaze model can improve the sense of unity in the virtual class room.
