{"id":229,"date":"2007-03-16T11:38:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-16T19:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=229"},"modified":"2007-03-16T11:38:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-16T19:38:00","slug":"practical-eye-tracking-for-guis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=229","title":{"rendered":"Practical eye-tracking for GUIs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/hci.stanford.edu\/research\/GUIDe\/\">Gaze-enhanced User Interface Design (GUIDe) project<\/a> at Stanford has a nice video demonstration of their EyePoint system for \"pointing\" in GUIs (see below).<\/p>\n<p>Eye-tracking technology has been around for a while, so that's not the interesting part.&nbsp; The interesting part is how they deal with the \"Midas problem\".&nbsp; The advantage of a mouse is that you can let go of the mouse when you don't want to move the pointer, but with eye-tracking your eyes are always moving.&nbsp; It's called the \"Midas problem\" in reference to the legend of King Midas, who wished for the power to turn things into gold at his touch;&nbsp; this backfired because everything he touched immediately turned into gold, including his food, his drink, and even his daughter.<\/p>\n<p>EyePoint deals with this problem by still requiring some other action to indicate that pointing is desired, but without totally eliminating the speed of eye-tracking.<\/p>\n<p><object height=\"350\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mOfA9Q5oc3M\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mOfA9Q5oc3M\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" height=\"350\" width=\"425\"><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gaze-enhanced User Interface Design (GUIDe) project at Stanford has a nice video demonstration of their EyePoint system for \"pointing\" in GUIs (see below). Eye-tracking technology has been around for a while, so that's not the interesting part.&nbsp; The interesting part is how they deal <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=229\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}