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Body Tracking Allows Cell Phones to Mimic Human Interaction

June 11, 2010 by egutierrez at 6:07 pm
Body Tracking Allows Cell Phones to Mimic Human Interaction

A walking, talking cellphone. How many people can say they've seen one of those? Well, two scientists in Simon Fraser University's School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT) have built not one, but two. Their first robotic cell phones, Cally and her younger brother Callo, can walk, dance and, using human tracking algorithms, mimic human gestures. Callo can even pass along text messaging emoticons as facial expressions.The two SIAT scientists recently demonstrated their robot's ability … [Read more...]

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Biometric Sensors for the iPhone?

June 3, 2010 by dbrendant at 4:00 pm
ecc_Biometric Sensors for the iPhone?

Who else has caught wind of an Apple patent for a biometric sensor on the iPhone? At Eye Tracking Update, we have heard a few rumors regarding new patents and iPhone apps, and a quick look around the web will bring up quite a few articles discussing the new addition.The tech site Fast Company is reporting that this new patent couldn’t be simpler. According to the article, part of the metal shell of an iPhone (see our previous post about the next gen iPhone found in a Silicon Valley bar last … [Read more...]

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Spreading Iris Tracking Technology to Every State

May 25, 2010 by egutierrez at 4:30 pm
spreading iris tracking technology to every state

The iris is the most distinguishing visible part of the human body. By taking a high resolution photograph of both eyes, focusing  specifically on the irises, an officer could check a suspect against a criminal database in seconds. Alternatively, a child's identity could be run through a database of missing children  in the same amount of time. This is the goal of the National Sheriff’s Association, which is providing a grant to promote the use of this technology and get it into the hands of … [Read more...]

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Improving Speech Recognition Accuracy Via Crowd Sourcing

April 27, 2010 by dbrendant at 2:36 pm
Speech Recognition and Crowd Sourcing

For many in the medical and assistive communication industries, speech recognition is nothing new. Like eye tracking, the ability of various devices and technologies to recognize speech has changed the way people, once limited in movement, can interact with the world. Personal computers have long been integrating speech recognition into their models, but I have to admit (and fortunately so), I rarely, if ever, used the speech recognition feature on my laptop.But now, as mobile phones are making … [Read more...]

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Eye Tracking: Challenging the Biological Monopoly

February 8, 2010 by dbrendant at 5:00 pm
Eye Tracking: Challenging the Biological Monopoly

Here at Eye Tracking Update we’re often talking about eye tracking in humans, and thus dealing with humans’ physiological processes of seeing. But as we know, engineers are attempting to design other, less human objects with an ability to “see”, threatening a living organism’s monopoly on sight. Computers now have image tracking features and object recognition technology (see Google’s photo recognition software for an example). What exactly, you might ask, am I talking about here?Check … [Read more...]

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