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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

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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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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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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