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Pupil Tracking Being Used to Discover Why People Blink

dbrendant — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:01:50 +0000

For those of our readers who have never listened to the show Radiolab on WNYC and National Public Radio, I highly recommend you do. A recent episode of the show, which is hosted by Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich, focuses on blinking and why humans do it. It’s commonly assumed that humans blink to lubricate [...]

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Experiment Uses Eye Tracking to Measure the Effects of Design Elements in Magazine Ads

mfox — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:41:53 +0000

A recent study conducted at Texas State University, San Marcos, analyzed the effectiveness of five different design elements used in magazine advertisements. Using eye tracking technology to measure the duration and number of eye fixations, the students conducting the experiment were able to measure the visual attention on each of the five elements: body text, [...]

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Eye Tracking in Video Game Player Experience

mfox — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:17:17 +0000

Researchers at the Blekinge Institute of Technology conducted an eye tracking experiment on players’ experience with Half Life 2. A specially modified Half Life 2 game was built using the game’s software development kit to correspond with the players’ eye tracking gaze. In the experiment, players do not completely control the game through eye tracking. [...]

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Improving Password Security With Eye Tracking

mfox — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:12:08 +0000

The moment an online password is entered is the least secure point and typically the moment where private information is stolen due to visual snooping. To combat this problem, researchers at Stanford University implemented a system for password entry via eye tracking. By creating an on-screen keyboard interface with a red focus point for each [...]

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GDC Friday: Muybridge’s Motion

dbrendant — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 00:27:13 +0000

One reason GDC 2009 is so exciting is that it provides a showcase for all the newest gadgets that people have been tinkering with for years in labs and offices, garages and basements. In a way, events like these remind me of what the World Expos of the early 1900s used to be like, showcasing [...]

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GDC Thursday

dbrendant — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:51:40 +0000

Another great exhibit from this year’s GDC was the Vuzix booth. Vuzix is a company based out of Rochester, NY, which is putting its efforts into developing a personal video display device for consumers, as well as low profile, head-mounted virtual reality displays. They have a number of applications that their headwear can boast, and [...]

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GDC Friday: Muybridge’s Motion

Eye Tracking for babies

dbrendant — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:01:10 +0000

I recently found an interesting New York Times article about eye-tracking for infants and how technological advances in tracking applications are finally allowing scientists to study an infant’s eye movement. As you can imagine, babies haven’t been the most cooperative subjects. Researchers are using eye-tracking to analyze what babies look at when someone is talking [...]

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Rest in Peace, Mouse… part 3

dbrendant — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:12:11 +0000

A couple days ago I posted an article that I came across on Wired.com talking about new UI trends that are overtaking the conventional mouse as the preferred mode of control. I referred to the list that Wired posted with the article, but wanted to go back and explain what each of these actually were [...]

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