Looking behavior and potential human interactions during locomotion

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Abstract

As humans move through parts of their environment, they meet others that may or may not try to interact with them. Where do people look when they meet others? We had participants wearing an eye tracker walk through a university building. On the way, they encountered nine “walkers.” Walkers were instructed to e.g. ignore the participant, greet him or her, or attempt to hand out a flyer. The participant’s gaze was mostly directed to the currently relevant body parts of the walker. Thus, the participants gaze depended on the walker’s action. Individual differences in participant’s looking behavior were consistent across walkers. Participants who did not respond to the walker seemed to look less at that walker, although this difference was not statistically significant. We suggest that models of gaze allocation should take social motivation into account.

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Hessels, R. S., Benjamins, J. S., van Doorn, A. J., Koenderink, J. J., Holleman, G. A., & Hooge, I. T. C. (2020). Looking behavior and potential human interactions during locomotion. Journal of Vision, 20(10), 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1167/JOV.20.10.5

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