Eye Tracking Update

Jan 11, 2012

Eye tracking has a presence at CES 2012

Online media is flooding with announcements about all the cool, high tech gadgets being revealed at CES this year in Las Vegas. Among the technologies making the news are several new eye tracking innovations making their debut this week. Here are four eye tracking products that are getting buzz at CES: Tobii on Windows 8 While not necessarily a new product, Tobii showed off their ability to run their eye...

Jan 4, 2012

Eye tracking study may reduce teen crash rates

An upcoming study at Montana State University’s Western Transportation Institute will use eye tracking to research the efficacy of virtual reality training to improve young drivers’ ability to perceive road hazards. The statistics about teen drivers are alarming, but most accidents involving teen drivers don’t happen for the reasons you might think. A 2011 study of 800 crashes involving teen drivers...

Dec 22, 2011

Eye tracking biometrics for medical diagnosis

The intimate connection between the eyes and the brain make eye tracking a clear fit in the field of neuroscience. In fact, the eyes have distinct movement patterns that can be altered by neurodamage and neurological disorders, which can be captured and identified by certain eye tracking systems. Recent advances in eye tracking technology by the medical device manufacturer, EyeBrain, are even making it...

Dec 1, 2011

Eye Tracking Cost: a Tradeoff for Quality?

One of the greatest factors inhibiting the widespread use of eye tracking is cost. It’s an issue that comes up in our articles frequently, and is apparently a popular topic among our readers. In fact, the top 3 most read posts last month were: The Price of Eye Tracking, How to Make An Eye Tracker For Under Fifty Bucks, and Try These Free Web Usability Tools. The problem regarding the high price of eye...

Nov 17, 2011

Eye Gaze & Gesture Control- How Smart Can TVs Get?

With the release of new wave gesture controlled video game consoles like the Sony Move and the Xbox Kinect, we knew it wouldn’t be long until eye gaze entered the playing field. The ability to track gaze and viewing behavior on a computer screen has been around for years now, but doing so on a television screen has never been possible until now. The introduction of Smart TVs has opened up a world of...