Gaze as evidence for common grounding: cross-corpus analysis of MapTask and MUNDEX

cs-nlp-uu · hf · 2026-09-17

This study asks whether gaze provides evidence of grounding in asymmetric-information collaborative tasks. Mapping HCRC MapTask and MUNDEX into a shared partner/task/away vocabulary, the authors find that aligned references and 'understood' judgments are associated with more task-directed gaze, less partner-directed gaze, lower gaze entropy, and fewer transitions—strongest for the task-leading participant. Effects are small and weaken when recurring participants are the unit of inference, so gaze should be treated as one contributing cue alongside task and dialogue context.

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