Real-time recording and classification of eye movements in an immersive virtual environment.

Combined Head - Eye Tracking for Immersive Virtual Reality

Real-time gaze tracking is a promising interaction technique for virtual environments. Immersive projection-based virtual reality systems such as the CAVE allow users a wide range of natural movements. Unfortunately, most head and eye movement measurement techniques are of limited use during free head and body motion. An improved head-eye tracking system is proposed and developed for use in imm...

Eye Movements, Visual Search and Scene Memory in an Immersive Virtual Environment APPROVED BY SUPERVISING COMMITTEE:

Interactions in a Human-Scale Immersive Environment: the CRAIVE- Lab

We describe interfaces and visualizations in the CRAIVE (Collaborative Research Augmented Immersive Virtual Environment) Lab, an interactive human scale immersive environment at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. We describe the physical infrastructure and software architecture of the CRAIVE-Lab, and present two immersive scenarios within it. The first is “person following”, which allows a perso...

Transformed Social Interaction , Augmented Gaze , and Social Infl uence in Immersive Virtual Environments

Immersive collaborative virtual environments (CVEs) are simulations in which geographically separated individuals interact in a shared, three-dimensional, digital space using immersive virtual environment technology. Unlike videoconference technology, which transmits direct video streams, immersive CVEs accurately track movements of interactants and render them nearly simultaneously (i.e., in r...

Crowd behaviour during high-stress evacuations in an immersive virtual environment

Understanding the collective dynamics of crowd movements during stressful emergency situations is central to reducing the risk of deadly crowd disasters. Yet, their systematic experimental study remains a challenging open problem due to ethical and methodological constraints. In this paper, we demonstrate the viability of shared three-dimensional virtual environments as an experimental platform...