Abstract
We have developed a speech-driven embodied entrainment characters with eyeball movement model, which consists of an eyeball delay movement model and a gaze withdrawal model. This characters can support the embodied interaction and communication in avatar mediated communication and demonstrate that the line-of-sight plays an important role in enhancing the embodied interaction and communication. In this paper, we propose a concept of eye-contact measurement method and develop an eye-contact measurement system using a dichroic mirror m face-to-face communication for enhancing the embodied interaction and communication. In this system, a dichroic mirror which has a function that transmits visible rays, and reflects infrared rays is arranged between two talkers as a virtual display, and the gaze points on the virtual display are estimated. When the estimated gaze points are present m the eye area of opposite talker, an eye-contact is established in face-to-face communication.
