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Do You See What Eyes See? Implementing Inattentional Blindness

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Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2005)

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This paper presents a computational model of visual attention incorporating a cognitive imperfection known as inattentional blindness. We begin by presenting four factors that determine successful attention allocation: conspicuity, mental workload, expectation and capacity. We then propose a framework to study the effects of those factors on an unexpected object and conduct an experiment to measure the corresponding subjective awareness level. Finally, we discuss the application of a visual attention model for conversational agents.

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  1. Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104-6389

    Erdan Gu & Norman I. Badler

  2. Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104

    Catherine Stocker

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  1. Department of Informatics, University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece

    Themis Panayiotopoulos

  2. Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California, 13274 Fiji Way, 90292, Marina Del Rey, CA, USA

    Jonathan Gratch

  3. School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot Watt University, EH14 4AS, Edinburgh, Scotland

    Ruth Aylett

  4. BT plc, Adastral Park, Ipswich, IP5 3RE, UK

    Daniel Ballin

  5. School of Computing Science, Culture Lab, Newcastle University, NE1 7RU, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

    Patrick Olivier

  6. University of Applied Sciences Augsburg, Friedberger Str. 2a, 86161, Augsburg, Germany

    Thomas Rist

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Gu, E., Stocker, C., Badler, N.I. (2005). Do You See What Eyes See? Implementing Inattentional Blindness. In: Panayiotopoulos, T., Gratch, J., Aylett, R., Ballin, D., Olivier, P., Rist, T. (eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3661. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11550617_16

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