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Chapter 4. Weaving oneself into others

Coordination in conversational systems
  • Rick Dale and Michael J. Spivey
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Eye-tracking in Interaction
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Abstract

We review a range of findings that show how eye movements (and other body movements) exhibit correlated behavior across two or more people during natural interactions. We then synthesize these different results into a more general account of how people’s cognitive, sensory and motor systems become coordinated with one another during natural dialogue. We argue that treating conversants as parts of one integrated system is a useful explanatory strategy for understanding interaction. We end by describing explicit quantitative conditions for seeking “systemhood” in human interaction. These conditions motivate future research questions on social eye movements and other behaviors.

Abstract

We review a range of findings that show how eye movements (and other body movements) exhibit correlated behavior across two or more people during natural interactions. We then synthesize these different results into a more general account of how people’s cognitive, sensory and motor systems become coordinated with one another during natural dialogue. We argue that treating conversants as parts of one integrated system is a useful explanatory strategy for understanding interaction. We end by describing explicit quantitative conditions for seeking “systemhood” in human interaction. These conditions motivate future research questions on social eye movements and other behaviors.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Chapter 1. Introduction 1
  4. Part 1. Theoretical considerations
  5. Chapter 2. Eye gaze as a cue for recognizing intention and coordinating joint action 21
  6. Chapter 3. Effects of a speaker’s gaze on language comprehension and acquisition 47
  7. Chapter 4. Weaving oneself into others 67
  8. Chapter 5. On the role of gaze for successful and efficient communication 91
  9. Part 2. Methodological considerations
  10. Chapter 6. Quantifying the interplay of gaze and gesture in deixis using an experimental-simulative approach 109
  11. Chapter 7. Gaze and face-to-face interaction 139
  12. Chapter 8. Automatic analysis of in-the-wild mobile eye-tracking experiments using object, face and person detection 169
  13. Part 3. Case studies
  14. Chapter 9. Gaze, addressee selection and turn-taking in three-party interaction 197
  15. Chapter 10. Gaze as a predictor for lexical and gestural alignment 233
  16. Chapter 11. Mobile dual eye-tracking in face-to-face interaction 265
  17. Chapter 12. Displaying recipiency in an interpreter-mediated dialogue 301
  18. Index 323
https://doi.org/10.1075/ais.10.04dal

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Chapter 1. Introduction 1
  4. Part 1. Theoretical considerations
  5. Chapter 2. Eye gaze as a cue for recognizing intention and coordinating joint action 21
  6. Chapter 3. Effects of a speaker’s gaze on language comprehension and acquisition 47
  7. Chapter 4. Weaving oneself into others 67
  8. Chapter 5. On the role of gaze for successful and efficient communication 91
  9. Part 2. Methodological considerations
  10. Chapter 6. Quantifying the interplay of gaze and gesture in deixis using an experimental-simulative approach 109
  11. Chapter 7. Gaze and face-to-face interaction 139
  12. Chapter 8. Automatic analysis of in-the-wild mobile eye-tracking experiments using object, face and person detection 169
  13. Part 3. Case studies
  14. Chapter 9. Gaze, addressee selection and turn-taking in three-party interaction 197
  15. Chapter 10. Gaze as a predictor for lexical and gestural alignment 233
  16. Chapter 11. Mobile dual eye-tracking in face-to-face interaction 265
  17. Chapter 12. Displaying recipiency in an interpreter-mediated dialogue 301
  18. Index 323
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