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Motion Tracking: Beckoning to the Future

August 26, 2010 by egutierrez at 2:35 pm
thumbs up

When speculating about the future of motion tracking technology, there are many questions that come to mind. How would this technology change the way I type? How would it make my life easier? Would I have more peripherals then than I do now? Less? These questions all seem reasonable, and this thought process provides me with some interesting thoughts, so to this, I give a thumbs up. The thumbs up is exactly what this project is trying to let me do. No more mouse clicks, just a series of natural … [Read more...]

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Watch Where You Step: Eye Tracking and Pedestrian Flow

June 4, 2010 by dbrendant at 12:30 pm
watch where you step

A friend once used an analogy that traffic tends to move through streets as water moves down a stream, speeding up in certain areas, stopping in others, building at forks until the oncoming pressure pushes it in a pattern of various directions. Whether true or not, it’s an entertaining concept, and one that doesn’t seem too complex to study.In fact, with progressing trends of sustainable development and urban planning, transport studies have become a topic of importance and interest within … [Read more...]

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Tracking Bias, Biometrically

June 4, 2010 by dbrendant at 9:00 am
tracking bias

A article popped up recently regarding the differences in reactions to marketing campaigns between an average consumer and an “industry pro,” or rather, someone who works within the media industry and whose job is to create or market content and products to regular consumers. Generally, it’s assumed (by industry pros) that they know what the average public wants and needs (though this is often based on what the public demands instead). But do industry professionals react to media differently … [Read more...]

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Eye Tracking and Social Anxiety

June 1, 2010 by dbrendant at 5:17 pm
eye tracking and social anxiety

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 individuals react to socially threatening stimuli, pointing out that those with social anxiety have more trouble disengaging from these socially threatening … [Read more...]

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Biometric Devices: The Story Behind Stephen Hawking’s Voice

June 1, 2010 by mfox at 3:13 pm
the story behind stephen hawking's signature voice

We posted an article a couple weeks ago about the possibility of eye tracking technology being used to help professor Stephen Hawking communicate. Living with ALS, the world-renowned physicist suffers from almost complete paralysis, except for some remaining facial muscle control. Without the aid of assistive communication technology, his fascinating theories on the universe may have been trapped in his mind forever. Given the complexity of his area of expertise and the content of his published works, … [Read more...]

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Iris Recognition is Advancing. Could It Help Eye Tracking?

June 1, 2010 by mfox at 2:58 pm
iris recognition technology is advancing... could it help for eye tracking

We’ve written several Eye Tracking Update posts about iris recognition lately because it is a technology that has recently experienced some pretty impressive advancements. If you think about it, it is pretty closely related to eye tracking technology - so much so that breakthroughs in one field may lead to progress in another. For example, Sarnoff Corporation recently won the “Best New Product Award” at the Security Industry Association New Product Showcase for its Iris on the Move (IOM) system.This … [Read more...]

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Ever Wonder How Facial Recognition Works?

May 24, 2010 by dbrendant at 8:30 am
ever wonder how face detection works

We do too. By now we’ve posted a few articles on Eye Tracking Update that mention face detection technologies being employed for security measures. It’s something we read about more often these days in news stories on counterterrorism and homeland security. But how does face detection actually work? A recent post that, oddly enough, covered various makeup patterns meant to hide from face detection actually pointed us to an interesting article that first appeared in SERVO Magazine back in February … [Read more...]

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The Snowball Effect: Advances in Eye Tracking

May 17, 2010 by dbrendant at 8:39 am
the snowball effect

Technological innovation is cyclical. A problem arises, a solution is determined, and an invention is created. New creations lead to even more innovations as people play off each other’s inventions, fixing them and finding better, more efficient approaches for some of the details that the original may have overlooked. Take the car, for example. A car is invented, and this leads to an entirely new slew of inventions – accessories and smaller solutions for the larger product. Apple is another example, … [Read more...]

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Eye Controlled Video Games? Better Late Than Never

May 12, 2010 by dbrendant at 10:00 am
Eye Controlled Video Games, Better Late Than Never

A recent article published in New Scientist may be a little late to the Eye Tracking party as far as we’re concerned, but it’s certainly good to see more eye tracking news in mainstream media, even if it is focusing on something that’s no novelty to most within the industry.The “innovation” article focuses on gamers in search of a more interactive, immersive, and thrilling gaming experience. And thanks to innovations in gaze tracking, gamers have yet another tool at their disposal for … [Read more...]

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Eye Tracking Technology as Memory Aid

May 6, 2010 by dbrendant at 5:00 pm
eye tracking technology as memory aid

In a recent post we noted a meeting that took place in the French Alps ski resort of Megeve. The inaugural Augmented Human International Conference took place over two days, with a gang of engineers and scientists meeting to discuss and share research and innovations on a flurry of new technology.Unfortunately, Eye Tracking Update wasn’t able to make it over to see the conference, but we’ve been finding plenty of articles on the goings on, and it sounds like an interesting success. And as … [Read more...]

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