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Mobile Eye Tracking New Avenues for the Study of Gaze in Social Interaction.

This volume explores the crucial role of gaze in human interaction, with a particular focus on the potential of mobile eye tracking to advance our methodology and understanding of multimodal communication.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zima, Elisabeth
Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Other Authors: Stukenbrock, Anja
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2025.
Series:Pragmatics and Beyond New Series.
Subjects:
Eye contact.
Eye tracking.
Gaze > Psychological aspects.
Social interaction.
Regard.
Oculométrie.
Regard > Aspect psychologique.
Interaction sociale.
Eye contact
Eye tracking
Gaze > Psychological aspects
Social interaction
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Table of contents
  • Chapter 1 Introduction
  • 1. Gaze in social interaction
  • 2. The advent of mobile eye tracking
  • 3. The chapters of this volume
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Part 1 Methodological considerations on the use of mobile eye tracking to study gaze in social interaction
  • Chapter 2 Why research on gaze in social interaction needs mobile eye tracking
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Epistemological and methodological questions of video recording in EMCA
  • 3. EMCA methodology and epistemology and the study of human gaze
  • Vis-à-vis
  • Side-by-side
  • L-shaped
  • Semi-circular
  • Triangular
  • Circular
  • Quandrangular
  • 4. Testing the reliability of gaze transcription in standard EMCA data versus eye tracking data
  • 4.1 Study design
  • 4.2 Results
  • Study 1a (no sound)
  • Study 1b (observer's perspective, with sound)
  • Study 2
  • 5. Conclusions
  • References
  • Chapter 3 The influence of the specificities of gaze behavior on emerging and ensuing interaction
  • 1. Introduction
  • 1.1 Research on pre-activities and pre-sequences
  • 2. Data collection
  • 3. Customers' perceptions and their relation to subsequent embodied conduct
  • 4. Customers' perceptions and their relation to sequence initiations and responses
  • 4.1 Search activities and their relation to recruitment sequences
  • 5. Discussion
  • References
  • Appendix. Transcription conventions
  • Chapter 4 Mobile eye-tracking and mixed-methods approaches to interaction analysis
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Defining and refining units of analysis
  • 3. Mutual gaze during face-to-face interaction
  • 3.1 Data and method
  • 3.2 Results
  • 3.3 Discussion of the quantitative results
  • 3.4 Further explaining the observed synchronisation in qualitative observations
  • 3.5 Functional quantification
  • 4. Conclusion
  • References
  • Part 2 Exploring interactional phenomena with mobile eye tracking
  • Stationary settings
  • Chapter 5 On the relationship between gaze and the German recipient token hm_hm
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Previous research on the function of gaze and the placement of the recipient token hm_hm
  • 2.1 The placement of hm_hm relative to the speaker's turn
  • 2.2 The function of gaze to mobilise recipient responses
  • 2.3 The gaze window hypothesis
  • 3. Corpus and methods
  • 4. Results
  • 4.1 Description of attested patterns
  • 4.2 Quantitative distribution of gaze patterns
  • 4.3 Analysis of the temporal placement of gaze-mobilised hm_hms
  • 4.3.1 Pattern 1
  • 4.3.2 Pattern 1
  • 4.3.3 Pattern 2
  • 4.3.3 Pattern 3
  • 5. The placement of hm_hm in relation to gaze and the Feedback Relevance Space
  • 6. Conclusions
  • References
  • Chapter 6 Gaze aversion as a marker of disalignment in interactions
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The role of gaze in disalignment sequences
  • 3. Data and methodology
  • 4. Analysis
  • 5. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • References