ISEA 2011 paper: “eye gaze as a vehicle for aesthetic interaction: affective visualisation for immersive user experience”

Gaze as a Vehicle for Aesthetic Interaction: Affective Visualisation for Immersive User Experience

This paper explores the potential of a novel generative visualisation technology that attempts to respond to affective changes of the user through reading their eye gaze. In this affective visualisation the interaction is based on an aestheticisation of the interplay between technological effect and affective human response; this implies to create a semantic framework of visual elements that exploit the affective capacity of user. In order to introduce this novel application the paper draws on critical investigations of aesthetic experience and studies of eye movement, with the aim of introducing a constructive model of affection in aesthetics. Finally, the paper suggests that such critical reflection is crucial for new modalities of experience in human-computer interaction. This is exemplified within the author’s recent practice, which explores the interconnectivity of visualisations of swarm intelligence and dynamic affective changes of the user’s immersive experience.

Full Paper ( Long version)  -  Eye Gaze as a Vehicle for Aestehtic Interaction: Affective Visualisation for Immersive User Expereince

Published in Portugase by Revista Z - O olhar como um veículo de interação estética: visualização afetiva na experiência imersiva

Short Paper – ISEA 2011 in Istanbul. Zics B. Eye Gaze as a Vehicle for Aesthetic Interaction: Affective Visualisation for Immersive User Experience. In: 17th International Symposium on Electronic Arts (ISEA). 2011, Istanbul: Sabanci University, Leonardo/ISAST and Goldsmiths College, University of London.