Topic: Eye Movements Reveal Person Characteristics

Speaker: Dr.Isabelle Mareschal.( Queen Mary University of London)

Time: 13:00-14:00, Wed, April 25th, 2018

Location: #1113, Wangkezhen Building, Peking University

Host: Prof. Fang Fang

Abstract: 

Dynamic gaze interactions between people underlies non-verbal communication and can be indicative of atypical behaviour. Therefore recording people’s eye movements while they engage in eye contact is of great interest for both diagnostic and research purposes. Here, we recorded people’s eye movements in two different experiments: (1) while they made eye contact with an actor on a screen (akin to a Skype scenario) and (2) while they engaged in “forced” periods of eye contact with another person in real life. In both conditions we found that participants’ eye movements revealed important information about themselves.