Gaze-enhanced User Interface Design

Date Published 29/03/2007 - Click here for more recent news

Here at EASIserv.com, whenever we're looking for inspiration or simply have an idle moment for a spot of 'blue-sky' day-dreaming - we invariably make a pit-stop at the Stanford University Human-Computer Interaction website (http://hci.stanford.edu) to see what they're getting up to. This is of course the hothouse from which emerged that well-known 'search' project known as Google...and we all know how that little piece of 'blue-skying' changed the world as we know it. 

 

What caught our eye during our most recent pit-stop was a project that they're calling EyePoint™.   This is a 'work-in-progress' to develop a practical solution for on-screen pointing and selection using gaze and keyboard.  Not with the objective of actually replacing the mouse, you understand,  but to provide an effective interaction technique that makes it possible for eye-gaze to be used as a viable alternative to the mouse for everyday pointing and selection tasks, such as surfing the web, depending on the users' abilities, tasks and preferences. 

 

The particular names associated with this (work-in-progress) project under the working title of Gaze-enhanced Scrolling Techniques are: Manu Kumar, Terry Winograd and Andreas Paepcke.  Now for those of you who take note of such things, you may not readily recognise all of those names - but you should recognise at least one of them,  Prof. Terry Winograd who was one of the original names involved with another project "The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine" that later became Google.  So Terry's been around some pretty exciting developments in the past - he may just have found another one.

 

If you'd like to learn more - then check-out some of the technical papers or the short video demo:

http://hci.stanford.edu/research/GUIDe/index.html

http://hci.stanford.edu/publications/2007/WIP265-kumar.pdf

http://hci.stanford.edu/publications/2007/inter137-kumar.pdf

http://hci.stanford.edu/publications/2007/chi253-kumar.pdf

 

 

 

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