Comparing Visual Attention with Leading and Following Virtual Agents in a Collaborative Perception-Action Task in VR

This paper presents a within-subject study to investigate the effects of leading and following behaviors on user visual attention behaviors when collaborating with a virtual agent (VA) during performing transportation tasks. There were two conditions, namely leader VA (LVA) and follower VA (FVA). The leader gave instructions to the follower to perform actions. In the FVA condition, the users played the leader role, while they played the follower role in the LVA condition. The preliminary results revealed significant differences in the user visual attention behaviors between the follower and leader VA conditions during the transportation tasks.

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