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Motion Tracking: Beckoning to the Future

August 26, 2010 by egutierrez at 2:35 pm
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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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Streamlining Digital Archives With Eye Tracking

August 25, 2010 by dbrendant at 3:15 pm
Digital Record Doctor

Digital archiving is an idea that’s slowly creeping into the workplace and it’s only a matter of time before more professionals, offices, and consumers start making it a part of their daily lives. It’s involved in our daily multi-tasking on the PC to some extent, and depending on your job, you may already be using it. When it comes to the medical industry, it’s really an invaluable idea.Digital archives of biomedical imagery could certainly put the necessary critical information at doctors’ … [Read more...]

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Is Eye Tracking for Usability Studies Worth the Trouble?

August 9, 2010 by dbrendant at 9:00 am
Internet Browsing

Despite many advancing eye tracking technologies, there are still naysayers that continually challenge the industry with fair questions. One question: Is eye tracking worth it?It’s easy to get excited about eye tracking and the ability to see where people look while they're using a website. It sounds like an incredible opportunity to gain insight into the user experience and a window into what the user is thinking. Eye tracking, of course, is quite expensive when not done in a DIY manner, and … [Read more...]

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Motion Tracking: Waving Goodbye to the Past

June 23, 2010 by egutierrez at 5:29 pm
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...]

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Motion Tracking Creates Hands Free Cell Phone Control

June 18, 2010 by dbrendant at 4:52 pm
Gesture Recognition Creates Hands-Free Cell Phone Control

It didn’t take long for most people to adapt to touch screen technology and gesture control when operating their phones and computers. iPhones are ubiquitous now and most other phones have gone in the same direction after seeing the success of the first touch screens. When you walk down the street these days, it seems almost everyone is flicking their hands and fingers around in their palms, controlling whatever latest new device they can get their hands on. With most sophisticated mobile phones … [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 in New Interfaces

March 11, 2010 by dbrendant at 4:01 pm
eye tracking interfaces

The word “interface” is a loaded one. It’s such a malleable word, and with regular, cutting edge progression in the tech worlds, we see it’s many uses popping up more and more. Interfaces are an essential ingredient in any human interaction, be it digital or physical. In a recent post we found, the author focuses on new user interfaces making headway in to our daily human activities. Perhaps they seem novel now, but soon enough we won’t give it a second thought as we scan our hand or face … [Read more...]

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Eye Tracking Study Compares Tag Cloud Layouts

February 2, 2010 by mfox at 4:32 pm
Eye Tracking Tag Cloud

From the massive quantity of information on the Internet arises the challenge of trying to organize it in a way that enables users to find what they need. What good is having all the answers to all the questions if you can’t locate the answer to the question you are actually asking? Media sharing, social bookmarking, and citation sites (i.e. Flickr, YouTube, Delicious, etc.) that are growing in popularity are using a new way to organize and categorize the information on their sites with “tag … [Read more...]

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Experiment Uses Eye Tracking to Measure the Effects of Design Elements in Magazine Ads

October 12, 2009 by mfox at 9:41 am
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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, head text, brand logo, product image, and human model image. Subjects were asked to browse through a magazine simulated on a LCD screen … [Read more...]

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Eye Tracking in Video Game Player Experience

July 24, 2009 by jtan at 8:17 am
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Researchers at the Blekinge Institute of Technology conducted an eye tracking experiment on players’ experience with Half Life 2. A specially modified Half Life 2 game was built using the game’s software development kit to correspond with the players’ eye tracking gaze.In the experiment, players do not completely control the game through eye tracking. Instead, a keyboard controls each player’s movement and eye tracking is used to control the first person camera view. The researchers measured … [Read more...]

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