Key Points
We measure gaze during tasks that ask observers to evaluate a person's characteristics and investigate how attention to each body part changes over time. We analyze differences associated with the characteristic words used in the tasks, as well as patterns shared among participants.
Abstract
When you assess someone's characteristics from a whole-body photograph, how do your eyes move? Earlier studies showed that viewers tend to look at the face first, but the sequence of locations they look at also matters. We investigated how gaze shifts between body regions while viewers carry out an evaluation task.
Participants assessed people in photographs using tasks based on words describing personal characteristics. We recorded their gaze locations throughout viewing. At each moment, we measured the distance between the gaze location and the person's body regions. We then compared how gaze movements changed when the characteristic word in the task changed.
Gaze initially focused on the face before shifting to the upper and lower body. Many participants shared a common pattern, while some showed individual patterns. Depending on the characteristic words used in the tasks, the changes in gaze over time could be similar or different.
Publications
- Fuyuko Iwasaki, Masashi Nishiyama, Yoshio Iwai,
Investigation of temporal changes of gaze locations during characteristic evaluation when viewing whole-body photos, Proceedings of 24th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII), vol. EPCE, pp. 18 - 32, June 2022. [Short movie] - Michiko Inoue, Masashi Nishiyama, Yoshio Iwai,
Subjective Scores and Gaze Distribution in Personality Evaluations: Effect of Subjects' Clothing on Observers' Impressions of Them, Proceedings of 24th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII), vol. DHM, pp. 220 - 230, June 2022. [Short movie] - 河口 野乃加, 木下 顕, 加藤 直人, 井上 路子, 西山 正志, 岩井 儀雄,
観察者が人物画像の印象を判断する時に計測された視線位置の時系列変化に関する分析, 精密工学会誌, vol. 87, no. 12, pp. 965 - 974, December 2021.
