About the dual function of eye gaze
From antiquity to today, scientists have acknowledged the importance of eye-gaze in understanding human social behaviour. Traditional studies of social gaze behaviour have used extremely controlled and artificial laboratory settings, which lack generalization to the complex world we live in. However, a recent theoretical account proposes that in the real world eye gaze has a dual function: the eyes both seek out useful information from the environment (an encoding function) and can reveal one’s perceptual states to others (a signalling function). Understanding the dual function of social eye gaze and its impact on socio-cognitive processes can be extremely valuable to decipher complex human social interactions, but at the same time poses new theoretical and methodological challenges.
About the event
This two-day event aims to bring together researchers from different backgrounds to discuss novel theoretical and methodological frameworks that can channel the complexity of the dual function of eye gaze in the real world into a coherent approach. We hope that this discussion will outline clear directions for future research and help advance cognitive theories of human social interactions.
The event is sponsored by the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and the Experimental Psychology Society. It will take place at the University College London (London, United Kingdom), across two days. See below for more details about the event, or click here for more information about the venue and key dates.
February 12th, 2018 - Interactive Eye Gaze: A Window to Typical and Atypical Social Behaviours
This conference day will give an overview of state-of-the-art research on social attention and interactive eye gaze. With a diverse group of speakers, this conference will explore how both seeing (encoding) and being seen (signalling) can influence social cognition in adults with and without autism spectrum conditions, with an emphasis on how social attention differs between the lab and the real world.
The event is sponsored by the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and the Experimental Psychology Society. It will take place at the University College London (London, United Kingdom), across two days. See below for more details about the event, or click here for more information about the venue and key dates.
February 12th, 2018 - Interactive Eye Gaze: A Window to Typical and Atypical Social Behaviours
This conference day will give an overview of state-of-the-art research on social attention and interactive eye gaze. With a diverse group of speakers, this conference will explore how both seeing (encoding) and being seen (signalling) can influence social cognition in adults with and without autism spectrum conditions, with an emphasis on how social attention differs between the lab and the real world.
February 13th, 2018 - Interactive Eye Gaze: Methodological Advances from the Lab to the Real World
This methods workshop day is specifically aimed at postgraduate students and early career researchers coming from a variety of backgrounds but with a common strong interest on social eye gaze. During this workshop, experts in the field of interactive eye gaze will discuss the utility and challenges of novel eye-tracking methods targeting the signalling function of eye gaze. Attendees will learn about advanced methods to design experiments that capture the signalling function of gaze, as well as techniques to analyse complex datasets generated by interactive eye-tracking.
This event is funded by the Experimental Psychology Society.
This methods workshop day is specifically aimed at postgraduate students and early career researchers coming from a variety of backgrounds but with a common strong interest on social eye gaze. During this workshop, experts in the field of interactive eye gaze will discuss the utility and challenges of novel eye-tracking methods targeting the signalling function of eye gaze. Attendees will learn about advanced methods to design experiments that capture the signalling function of gaze, as well as techniques to analyse complex datasets generated by interactive eye-tracking.
This event is funded by the Experimental Psychology Society.
About the organisers
Dr. Indu Dubey
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Roser Cañigueral, PhD student
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Dr. Alexandra Georgescu
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Dr. Antonia Hamilton
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