Connecting the Brains via Virtual Eyes : Eye-Gaze Directions and Inter-brain Synchrony in VR

I. Gumilar , A. Barde , A. F. Hayati , M. Billinghurst , G. A. Lee , A. Momin , C. Averill , A. Dey

CHI Extended Abstracts

Building on evidence that VR can produce inter-brain synchrony much as the real world does, this study asks how non-verbal cues shape it. It focuses on eye gaze, examining how the gaze directions exchanged between users in a collaborative virtual environment affect the synchrony between their brains. The aim is to understand how faithfully rendering a fundamental social signal like gaze influences neural coupling during VR interaction.

@inproceedings{gumilar2021,
  author    = {I. Gumilar and A. Barde and A. F. Hayati and M. Billinghurst and G. A. Lee and A. Momin and C. Averill and A. Dey},
  title     = {Connecting the Brains via Virtual Eyes : Eye-Gaze Directions and Inter-brain Synchrony in VR},
  booktitle = {CHI Extended Abstracts},
  pages     = {350:1-350:7},
  doi       = {10.1145/3411763.3451583},
  year      = {2021}
}