September 3, 2010

Motion Tracking: Waving Goodbye to the Past

Motion Tracking

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 serve as the inspiration for the Armchair Interface. This new and exciting technology utilizes web cameras to translate gestures and hand movements into mouse control, providing … [Read more...]

Tips From Eye Tracking Studies on Website Design

Eye Tracking Web Design Tips

Here at Eye Tracking update we’re often talking about lessons learned from the various eye tracking studies that have been done over the years. A reader recently forwarded a decent article that collected a bunch of these into one place. Twenty-three to be exact. Here are a few of them relating to webpage layout and design:1. Text attracts attention before graphics. We as humans have become pretty good at filtering out all the extra "garbage" on a webpage, and contrary to what people might think, … [Read more...]