Using eye tracking to visualize the attention location in collaborative editing systems

Abstract

Awareness in computing is the knowledge about the present and past group’s activities, which is a relevant issue for cooperative work. There are many devices that supply awareness information in synchronous collaborative editing systems. However, the current awareness devices have restrictions to provide awareness more effectively and to capture the focus of attention, i.e. identify the exact place of the participants’ attentions. This paper presents an awareness device for synchronous collaborative editing systems called TeleEye, which provides information about the place of the participant’s attention during a collaborative session by means of eye tracking.

Keywords: attention, collaboration, awareness, eye tracking.