Gaze and EEG Analysis of Avatar-Based Navigation in VR (HAI ’15)

As an undergraduate research intern at Yonsei University, I conducted a pair of studies published at the 3rd International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI ’15): Gaze Analysis of Avatar-based Navigation with Different Perspectives in 3D Virtual Space and EEG Analysis on 3D Navigation in Virtual Reality with Different Perspectives.

The gaze study examined how first- and third-person perspectives, as well as avatar types, shape users’ visual attention and perceptual scope in 3D virtual environments. The EEG study complemented this by measuring how navigation perspective modulates neural activity associated with peripersonal space and sense of agency.

Together, these projects trained me to design controlled experiments, collect multimodal sensor data, and interpret gaze and EEG signals as evidence about users’ cognitive and embodied states—skills that later informed my work on peripersonal space and gaze-based interaction techniques.