Joint attention and co-construction: new ways to foster user-designer collaboration
Context and consciousness
Models of attention in computing and communication: from principles to applications
Communications of the ACM
Globally distributed software development and pair programming
Communications of the ACM
Visual information as a conversational resource in collaborative physical tasks
Human-Computer Interaction
Eye-gaze experiments for conversation monitoring
Proceedings of the 3rd International Universal Communication Symposium
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We investigate the role of gaze in communication and collaboration between humans in computerised environments. In this paper we describe a software solution to a multidirectional gaze display in shared-display collaborative tasks and we report on initial results of an experiment in which the system was applied to allow gaze display in a remote pair-programming lecture. Remotely, an expert was explaining two algorithms to a novice who then attempted to apply the algorithm on an unseen problem. We report on an analysis of data from the conditions when there was a gaze transmitted and displayed to the peer with the no-gaze condition. The remote gaze display reliably affected the variability of novices visual attention patterns and they were better able to focus on the information presented. Without the experts gaze display their strategies contained greater variety.