Designing attentive cell phone using wearable eyecontact sensors

  • Authors:
  • Roel Vertegaal;Connor Dickie;Changuk Sohn;Myron Flickner

  • Affiliations:
  • Queen's University, Kingston, ON;Queen's University, Kingston, ON;Queen's University, Kingston, ON;IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA

  • Venue:
  • CHI '02 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We present a prototype attentive cell phone that uses a low-cost EyeContact sensor and speech analysis to detect whether its user is in a face-to-face conversation. We discuss how this information can be communicated to callers to allow them to employ basic social rules of interrruption.