Visceral Interfaces for Eye-Tracking Privacy Awareness in VR

Topics: privacy notice, virtual reality, eye tracking

Abstract

Eye tracking supports interaction, rendering optimization, and adaptive experiences in VR, but gaze data can also reveal identity, behavior, and sensitive personal attributes. This project designed three visceral, in-experience interfaces intended to make eye-tracking data collection and its implications more understandable than conventional terms-of-service notices. A user study evaluated how people perceived these interfaces. Although some visualizations could be distracting, participants generally found them informative and supported making such privacy-awareness mechanisms available, even when not enabled continuously by default.

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@inproceedings{ramirezsaffy2024visceral,
  title     = {Visceral Interfaces for Privacy Awareness of Eye Tracking in VR},
  author    = {Ramirez-Saffy, G. Nikki and Chelladurai, Pratheep Kumar and Vargas, Alances and Bukhari, Ibrahim and Selinger, Evan and Foster, Shaun and Heller, Brittan and David-John, Brendan},
  booktitle = {2024 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR)},
  pages     = {396--405},
  year      = {2024},
  doi       = {10.1109/ISMAR62088.2024.00054}
}