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Biometric Devices: Criticism Growing Against Scans in Airports

August 6, 2010 by dbrendant at 9:00 am
3d body scan

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 scanning technologies in past posts on Eye Tracking Update, as we occasionally cover topics like biometrics, but new reports are causing a stir … [Read more...]

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Eye Tracking Study Looks Into Your Bad Hair Day

August 5, 2010 by dbrendant at 9:00 am
bad hair day

We’ve seen a lot of eye tracking studies focusing on first impressions and in individual’s instincts when it comes to determining if someone is, for example, trustworthy, friendly, or even deceptive (see recent posts on eye tracking for suspect lineups in law enforcement). But we have yet to see one as overt, in a superficial way, as in an article posted on Pantene’s website. Of course, Pantene is advertising for their hair products here, but we thought it was interesting nonetheless.In … [Read more...]

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Iris Recognition That Detects Hostiles Being Developed for Darpa

August 4, 2010 by dbrendant at 9:00 am
Iris scanning

More eye tracking news from the homeland security industry, this time from Wired’s Danger Room. The Pentagon is currently funding researchers that are developing mini-cameras that can locate and scan eyeballs.The article says a team of electrical engineers at Southern Methodist University (SMU) has created cameras with funding from Darpa, which is the Pentagon’s research agency. The cameras first started showing up in the blogs last year, when Marc Christensen, a professor at SMU announced … [Read more...]

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What Has Eye Tracking Taught Us About Criminal Identifications?

August 3, 2010 by dbrendant at 9:00 am
Criminal Lineup

Researchers have now been using eye tracking for more than a century. This may be surprising to some but a quick look around web and you can see just where and when it started to show up. It’s led to numerous discoveries providing insight into how we think and feel. As a recent publication puts it, eye tracking has investigated a range of topics – not just the usability studies we see more and more of these days, but others such as the effect of weapon exposure, visual attention in anti-social … [Read more...]

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Will You Buy an Eye Tracking Smartphone?

August 2, 2010 by dbrendant at 9:00 am
Eye tracking smartphone

Apple’s iPhone fiasco (I think some have called it Antennagate?) has garnered a lot of media coverage in the past couple weeks, and lately it seems not a day passes that we don’t read something somewhere about the latest, greatest smart phone. As various state laws pass curtailing the use of phone and text applications while driving, some new ways of operating cell phones have come to the front. Eye tracking, it seems, is one of them.Nokia, the mobile handset giant, is developing an eye … [Read more...]

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What Eye Tracking Reveals About Your Lying Eyes

July 31, 2010 by dbrendant at 9:00 am
Lying eyes

Lie detection is a field that, with increasing security controls worldwide, is most certainly growing. A group of educational psychologists are using eye tracking technology in an effort to create a new alternative to polygraph lie detection. Recent research licensed by the University of Utah (where the research is taking place) to Credibility Assessment Technologies is a milestone for the industry and a promising hint of things to come.Credibility Assessment Technologies (CAT) is based in Park … [Read more...]

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Eye Tracking and F Patterns: Recurring Theme in Web Usability

July 27, 2010 by dbrendant at 3:38 pm
F pattern

Again, the F pattern. It’s a frequently recurring topic worth noting, as it really seems to be the strongest and most consistent trend we see coming out of the various web usability studies throughout the industry.When designing a site, a paper, or a page, it’s important to know how a person reads, where they look, and what they can expect to find. If you want to catch a visitor’s eye, there are certain rules to follow which remain consistent.Through eye tracking and the resulting heatmaps … [Read more...]

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Avatars and Eye Tracking: Ford Uses Technology to Improve Safety

July 26, 2010 by dbrendant at 10:46 am
Human Avatar

Ford Motor Company has been using eye tracking and virtual reality to improve safety in motor vehicles. In an article recently published at AskPatty.com, a website specializing in automotive advice for women, Ford is said to be working with several high-tech labs, taking advantage of virtual reality to help reduce injuries, costs, and strict timelines and eye tracking to detect and prevent drowsy driving.Ford has created two avatars of different sizes, known as “Jack” and “Jill.” Jack … [Read more...]

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Framework for Eye Tracking Patterns and Usability Problems: Pt 4

July 19, 2010 by dbrendant at 3:25 pm
Real Time Usability

This week at Eye Tracking Update we’ve been discussing the lack of a concrete, rigorous framework by which eye tracking usability metrics can be interpreted.  Typically, interpretations are done by usability experts or in some of the more D.I.Y studies, whomever is doing the testing.  We’ve centered much of our discussion around an academic paper published by two researchers, Ehmke and Wilson, from City University, London.  In it, they suggest that there needs to be a more standardized model … [Read more...]

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Framework for Eye Tracking Patterns and Usability Problems: Pt 3

July 16, 2010 by dbrendant at 4:02 pm
Usability Studies arent the Holy Grail

Ehmke and Wilson, the two researchers who published the report in association with City University in London, raise the point that there still remains a need “for studies that relate eye-tracking patterns to specific usability problems (by indicating cognitive processes).” In the past, eye tracking metrics have been compared to general interface usability, assessed by usability experts or calculated from performance completion times for certain tasks. But, as they say, expert reviews and performance … [Read more...]

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