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Eye tracking has a presence at CES 2012

mfox — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:59:39 +0000

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 [...]

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Head Tracking On The Cheap

dbrendant — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:30:11 +0000

A website was recently passed our way that gave pretty detailed instructions on how to build your own head tracker for cheap. We’ve seen a few of these in the past and others featuring eye trackers, but this one seems pretty well done so we thought we’d pass it along. The post on maximumpc.com goes [...]

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Update on Rumored Merger to Impact Eye Tracking Companies

dbrendant — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 16:03:31 +0000

Did you read about Google and Verizon’s rumored joint venture? We want to follow up on this hubbub that was suspected to change the online environment indefinitely. The New York Times reported early on that the two media giants were to announce a pact that would create a tiered Internet. This change would allow for [...]

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Student Creates Eye Tracking Robot To Aid Disabled

dbrendant — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 16:30:19 +0000

Here at Eye Tracking Update we will occasionally write about Artificial Intelligence and robotic systems if they have something to do with the general topics we cover. Lately though, it seems we’ve written more and more on robotics in general as there seems to be an ample amount of crossover between that industry and the [...]

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Eye Tracking: 6 Ways to Better Usability and Conversion

dbrendant — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 17:38:33 +0000

Here at Eye Tracking Update we get a lot of lists. Lists on eye tracking. Lists on head tracking. Lists describing how to make something. Lists summarizing the problem with any one particular website. One more list-based article we recently came across stated they could reveal six secrets of eye tracking that were previously unknown. [...]

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Ubisoft’s Mission to Becoming the Biggest Biometrics Game Developer

dbrendant — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:50:29 +0000

This year we have posted a number of articles on Microsoft’s latest bid to join the world of hands-free gaming, controlling on screen avatars with the wave of a hand or the step of a foot. Microsoft’s dream has now become a reality as they enter the timeline for unveiling their new product, dubbed Kinect. [...]

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The iPad As Communication Device

dbrendant — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 16:30:04 +0000

In the past year the New York Times has published a number of articles on technologies that are relatively close to the field of eye tracking if not firmly rooted in the industry itself. With new technologies, we have see more and more devices that can be customized for various applications, and eye and head [...]

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Biometric Security: Crime Fighting Goes Minority Report

dbrendant — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 18:00:44 +0000

When you read as many articles about eye tracking, head tracking, and biometrics as we do, it’s only a matter of time before you come across the inevitable Minority Report comparisons. For those of you who haven’t seen it, Minority Report is a Steven Spielberg vision of the future (loosely based on Philip K. Dick’s [...]

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Biometric Devices: A Comparison of Microsoft’s Kinect and Sony’s Move Pt.2

dbrendant — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 16:16:09 +0000

In Part One of this article we looked at GamaSutra’s review of the Playstation Move, Sony’s venture into motion tracking for the gaming world. A review from the gaming website compared Sony’s vision, as demonstrated in their concept demos at conferences earlier in the year, with how the finished product actually turned out. Now that [...]

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Biometric Devices: A Comparison of Microsoft’s Kinect and Sony’s Move

dbrendant — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 17:16:32 +0000

In past articles we’ve written about upcoming game system releases. Many of the newer consoles have motion tracking, quite similar to eye and gaze tracking, and we’re looking forward to seeing how some of you more DIY eye tracking folks take advantage of the new hardware as it’s released to the public. One recent article [...]

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Biometric Devices: Using Your Mind To Control The Screen

dbrendant — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 00:56:27 +0000

Last year at the Game Developers Conference we got to see quite a few cool new gadgets, many of which had to do with some sort of eye tracking or head tracking. We very quickly stopped by the booth of Neurosky, a company in San Francisco, who is creating new ways of game play with [...]

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Biometric Devices: Criticism Growing Against Scans in Airports

dbrendant — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 16:00:54 +0000

According to a recent article published in USA Today, New York’s JFK and LaGuardia airports will be newly equipped with full-body imaging scanners in the coming months. The “virtual strip searches,” as some fliers are calling it, use E-rays or electromagnetic waves to detect weapons on 3-D images of passengers’ naked bodies. We’ve discussed body [...]

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Will Eye Tracking Take Neuromarketing to the Next Level?

dbrendant — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 16:00:05 +0000

With new technology often comes a certain creep factor, and eye tracking, head tracking, and neuro/biological is no exception. In a recent post on the Atos Origin blog, Steve Nimmons makes an effort to help us understand the potential of neuromarketing. That word in itself sounds quite scary, really, but has a look at his [...]

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Eye Tracking Research Exploring Assistive Possibilities

dbrendant — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:39:23 +0000

Many of our posts revolve around the ever expanding industry of usabilty testing with eye tracking technology. So it’s a pleasure to see more use of eye tracking for humanitarian purposes, such as aiding in communication or transportation for those with ability limitations. In a recent paper published at the University of Southern California – [...]

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Motion Tracking: Waving Goodbye to the Past

egutierrez — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:29:55 +0000

Sci-Fi fans should remember the scenes from Minority Report, where Tom Cruise stood in front of a futuristic computer, moving files around with only his hands. The ease and speed with which he navigated through the interface for the files he sought seemed faster than your standard mouse clicks. This scene and others like it [...]

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Can Biometric Security Balance Between Safety and Efficiency?

dbrendant — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:53:00 +0000

Knowing who people are as they pass through security, who is potentially harmful, when a threat arises and what to do when it does – it’s knowledge necessary to keep travelers safe. It’s an important field and not a day passes that you don’t read another article covering some security breach in the papers. Since [...]

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A Novel Trick Using Head Tracking

dbrendant — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 01:30:30 +0000

We just came across a pretty good video featuring a novel use for head tracking. Some creative folks at Rationalcraft.com found to way to transform their living room with a pair of HD plasma TV screens and a Wii Remote; a trick we’ve written about in past posts. Combining Custom Winscape software with a high [...]

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Using the Nintendo Wii for head-tracking

Eye Tracking and Social Anxiety

dbrendant — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 00:17:10 +0000

These days it’s impossible to turn on the television without seeing an ad for social anxiety medication. The sad little animated lump rolling along the screen reminds us that it’s one of the most prevalent psychiatric conditions, affecting a large swath of the population. A recent study focusing on the subject explored how socially anxious [...]

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Eye Tracking and Speed Dating: Love At First Glance

dbrendant — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:03:45 +0000

Every now and again, we here at Eye Tracking Update come across a funny article that describes eye tracking in a more humorous light. With so many studies being done, it’s not surprising that some are more entertaining than others, and it’s always fun to see eye tracking and head tracking technology used more creatively, [...]

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Eye Tracking in New Interfaces

dbrendant — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:01:23 +0000

The word “interface” is a loaded one. It’s such a malleable word, and with regular, cutting edge progression in the tech worlds, we see it’s many uses popping up more and more. Interfaces are an essential ingredient in any human interaction, be it digital or physical. In a recent post we found, the author focuses [...]

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Improved Eye Tracking Algorithm to Be Used for Driver Fatigue Detection System

mfox — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:54:03 +0000

Researchers from the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at Tamkang University in Taipei, Taiwan have found an improved eye tracking algorithm, which they plan to use in detecting driver fatigue. The department has proposed a vision-based, real-time driver fatigue detection system that uses ordinary CCD cameras to accomplish a variety of tasks: face [...]

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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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Cognitive Scientists Use Eye Tracking Technology to Learn What Makes a Great Geologist

mfox — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:45:22 +0000

Scientists are using eye tracking technology to study what aids geologists in making important discoveries, learn why some geologists are better at their jobs than others, and to understand, in particular, how a successful geologist effectively “teases information out of a terrain with complex features.” Along with his undergraduate students, John Tarduno, a professor of [...]

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Visual Instincts

dbrendant — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 05:51:48 +0000

The New York Times today published an article on human instinct and, in particular, gut feeling soldiers often get in battle when faced with a potential or perceived threat. The article deals specifically with improvised explosive devices (I.E.D.’s) in Iraq and Afghanistan and what causes certain soldiers’ hunches to be quicker and more accurate than [...]

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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

You smile, they smile: GDC Wednesday

dbrendant — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 02:30:27 +0000

One of the more memorable booths for me at the 2009 Game Developers Conference was Optitrack’s face motion capture demo. In it, they had a girl wearing reflective facial markers at different points on her face, along with a headband with more markers. As she moved her face, a screen behind her with three corresponding [...]

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GDC Tuesday

dbrendant — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:38:04 +0000

I went early to the Game Developers Conference at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA today to check things out. Today was sort of a precursor to the main event – vendors setting up their booths and displays, classes and lectures all day, and generally a lot of people networking and/or milling about, many [...]

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A little silliness for a Monday…

dbrendant — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:29:59 +0000

While looking around through a few eye-tracking sites today I came across an older post that that seemed kind of fun and I thought I’d share. Have a look at the first video – the incredible color changing card trick. In the second video, a couple researchers have used eye-tracking technology to follow a group [...]

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Eye Tracking Update at the 2009 GDC in San Francisco

dbrendant — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:28:31 +0000

A few of us here at the blog will be making the rounds next week in San Francisco for the annual Game Developers Conference. There’s a lot of exciting crossover between the eye-tracking and gaming worlds, and we’ll be there to check in with current trends and news. Look out for updates next week! In [...]

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A guest contributor

dbrendant — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 17:42:43 +0000

I wanted to introduce a new blogger here at Eye-Tracking Update, Ian Caballero. Ian is an engineer at Eye Com Corporation, a company we’ve previously featured as a leader in wireless eyetracking technologies. Ian will be contributing the occasional article on eye-tracking and what’s happening from the field. So keep an eye out for some [...]

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Head-tracking, eye-tracking… what next, brain-tracking? But of course!

dbrendant — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:51:48 +0000

As you probably know by now, we like to follow all things “eye-tracking” here at the blog. But occasionally some news will catch our attention that has less to do with eye-tracking, yet still relates. Today the New York Times posted an article about muscle reinnervation and the use of brain signals to control movement. [...]

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Tobii’s Tech

dbrendant — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:29:05 +0000

One interesting player in the field of eye tracking technology is Tobii. Tobii is a Swedish company involved in eye tracking since 2001, and is making an attempt to provide both hardware and software solutions in the fields of design testing and medicine. Tobii has created a mobile eye-controlled device that assists in communication for [...]

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Touchscreens

dbrendant — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:57:47 +0000

Microsoft began promoting a new device last year – the Microsoft Surface. And while it still seems a bit oversized perhaps, it’s good to see they’ve been planning to join the ranks of the touch screen trend that kicked off in earnest with Apple’s iPhone a couple years ago. There’s a lot of research and [...]

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CES: Is it 3D enough? The electronics industries first stab at peripheral assisted 3D.

jbower — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:59:36 +0000

Most of the industries current attempts to create the illusion of increased 3D depth for videos games took the form of stereo-optic imaging display, where the image seems a lot out of focus until you place on the special pair of Captain Eo glasses (or for the younger audience, the pair of Shrek 4D glasses) [...]

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CES: The Latest in Gaming Headphones But Still Something is Missing… Headtracking

CES: The Latest in Gaming Headphones But Still Something is Missing… Headtracking

jbower — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:17:47 +0000

So many companies are attempting to build pseudo surround sound into there high-end line of their gaming headphones and are running into the same problem companies trying to make realistic 3d games are having, they both have no idea where the gamers’ head is located in comparison to the monitor. Eye-com Corporation (ECC) has a [...]

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Honoring innovation

dbrendant — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:30:26 +0000

As this is a relatively new blog, on occasion it is valuable to add significant news that might have been posted had the blog existed at the time. And coming up on the year’s end, this seems like a particularly good time to look back to March 2008, when Dr. William Torch, chairman of Eye-Com, [...]

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Using the Nintendo Wii for head-tracking

dbrendant — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:57:29 +0000

It’s incredible to see some of the innovative ways people are using head tracking these days. Of course, it’s hardly surprising when you consider the influx of tools and devices people can easily get on a quick trip to the mall. Johnny Lee of Carnegie Mellon University posted an interesting video on his YouTube site [...]

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Coming soon to a computer, camera, Mp3 player, or flash drive near you…

dbrendant — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:56:59 +0000

The new Macs are out, and I have to say I was a bit upset about their decision to phase out the Firewire transfer. Well, it’s probably time I update my iPod anyway. Apparently it’s all USB from here on out for Mac. That said, Eye-Com is certainly looking forward to the latest version – [...]

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Eye Tracking in Video Game Player Experience

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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NeoVizus Gaze

dbrendant — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:42:59 +0000

There are many reasons to get into the eye- and head-tracking industry. Martin Tall and his NeoVizus Gaze system seems to be making the rounds on the tech blogs these days, offering eye tracking technology as a solution for carpal tunnel syndrome. Tall is using the NeoVizus Gaze as a photo browser within specific software, [...]

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Improving Password Security With Eye Tracking

D.I.Y. eye-tracking

dbrendant — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 06:26:45 +0000

Eye-tracking hardware can break the bank if you’re not careful. But if you feel like creating your own eye tracking program for free, this guy has the software to do it. All you need is a webcam! Here’s an example of the accuracy you can expect: Check it out here. Check Out The Free Eye [...]

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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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Rest in Peace, Mouse… part 2

dbrendant — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:51:44 +0000

Yesterday I posted an article that I came across on Wired.com talking about new UI (user interface) 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 in [...]

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Rest in Peace, Mouse.

dbrendant — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:55:13 +0000

I just found a story on Wired.com about the death of the mouse. In the digital world, we know that new technologies are taking over regularly, but it’s always interesting to look at the technologies that fall by the wayside as new trends take their place. The latest candidate for the digital [...]

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