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- rwbrinso, on 07/01/2009, -0/+13Okay, that's really awesome (certainly cool enough to keep me from making a snide comment, and that says something.)
- smitas, on 07/01/2009, -1/+13Good thing
- iDoraemon, on 07/01/2009, -0/+5Has anyone actually used eye-tracking hardware before? Our research lab acquired some eye-tracking goggles for HCI research, which cost several thousand dollars. One of the first people in our lab to use the goggles experienced headaches trying to sync them and do simple tracking. I have no idea how the European research labs are doing it.
Plus, you have to do some mad filtering to get them to work as the primary or sole modality. I've only seen them used effectively for tasks other than reading when used in conjunction of another modality. - postitnote, on 07/01/2009, -0/+5Spammer
- inactive, on 07/01/2009, -0/+4Human innovation is great. People with full functioning minds but physical disabilities are some of the smartest people you will come across. I don't mean any disrespect to them when I say this but, they have more time to sit and learn as opposed to most of us with able bodies. I forsee their contribution to society as instrumental to our development as a human race. Stephen Hawkings and the like are just the tip of the iceberg.
Bravo humans, score one for good technology! - ozydingo, on 07/01/2009, -0/+4I've used one; not a goggles but an older, larger system--a dual purkinje image eyetracker. Worked pretty well, caused no headaches--did require a fair amount of calibration though, which is unsurprising.
By filtering, do you just mean filtering out high-frequency jitters? Is a summing low-pass filter insufficient for this purpose? - Kojangie, on 07/01/2009, -1/+5There are so many advanced controls in games that watching someone play one like this would be hilarious.
- inactive, on 07/01/2009, -0/+3Porn Tracking software?
- fivefootfour, on 07/01/2009, -0/+3I hope the goggles also come with a mute function for the other players on WoW. I'd hate to think science advanced to this point so some 14 year old ***** could call a quadriplegic a retard for dying during a raid..
- Frankyfan3, on 07/01/2009, -0/+3Unless their disability is blindness.
- Haptick, on 07/01/2009, -0/+2They have improved quite a bit, even with calibration times. When I went to the RESNA 2008 conference (rehabilitation engineering and assistive technology society for north america), several vendors demoed their last eye tracking systems (I believe all were dual purkinje image, dark pupil trackers). Each had varying calibration times, with some having automatic calibration upon detection of the IR reflection, some having a "manual" calibration set up phase before you could use the system. Typically, the latter method had better spatial accuracy, but with one system I remember I had to recalibrate everything because I turned my head significantly and looked 90 degrees away from the screen. Auto-calibration is probably good when it's a secondary position tracking mode for individuals without severe motor impairment, but that was just my impression.
As for his filtering comment, ozydingo, I believe he's talking about something other using a lowpass to attenuate high frequency jitters in the movement, but something else more along the lines of parametric methods (like AR modeling). - copypastry, on 07/01/2009, -1/+2Technology allows the physically disabled to become socially disabled as well, film at 11.
- moskrin, on 07/02/2009, -0/+1click to focus
focus follows mouse
focus follows eyes
Yeah, that'll be awesome. - ozydingo, on 07/01/2009, -0/+1"something else more along the lines of parametric methods (like AR modeling)"
which are relatively fast and easy to implement, correct? (ok, not relative to summing low-pass filters, but you know what I mean). I ask this simply because iDo made the filtering point as if it were a large barrier to using eye-tracking as an input modality, so I wonder if I'm missing something (I'm no expert on these systems). - JFitzpatrick, on 07/01/2009, -0/+1It's only a matter of time before some poor 15 yearold disabled kid suffers a horrible eye strain from discovery the bounty of naked women on the internet.
"You used your goggle-interface for *how* long?" - pseudologue, on 07/01/2009, -0/+1Once this technology is perfected, isn't it possible for people without disabilities but are just really lazy little bastards adopt the technology themselves.
See, you don't even have to use your hands! You can fap, eat, and surf the internet simultaneously. - Haptick, on 07/01/2009, -0/+1If I remember correctly, all initial work on eye tracking was not done for the benefit of the disabled (a large portion was for military, specifically airforce, applications), so technically (some) people without disabilities have long benefited from this technology.
Just, not yet for achieving the pinnacle of laziness that you describe... - PatrickX, on 07/01/2009, -0/+1Isn't most of Second Life just walking around?
- hiPpymIck, on 07/01/2009, -1/+1even more good news..
you "eat - with your eyes" - RadiatedAnt, on 07/01/2009, -4/+1this is good news for my pork rind riddled lazy krispy kreme coveting, hostess pie cherry chomping, montecristo loving fatass. what? obesity is a disability :)
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