Tobii

Everett Collection "People visiting their booth can try out their 'gaze interaction' system, which allows users to control their computer screens with their eyes, scrolling through Web pages and photo slide shows with mere glances, blowing up asteroids by staring at them … " –SiliconAngle, on Tobii Technology's booth at the Consumer Electronics Show

Email With Your Eyeballs, Change Channels With Your Spleen Peter Jeffrey 2012

No sooner had Tobii set up its eyeball booth than Splenetics, of Menlo Park, appeared, hot off an all-nighter in the lab, paying at the door and setting up at the other end of the North Hall to showcase a TV technology that replaces the remote with your spleen.

Email With Your Eyeballs, Change Channels With Your Spleen Peter Jeffrey 2012

People visiting the booth could also try out Tobii's "gaze redaction" system, special eyeglasses that let you edit bad writers into Cicero just by looking at their drafts, or its "Shays' Rebellion" system, a cerebral chip containing all the things you once knew but forgot, or its "sneer repression" technology, a set of micropolymer pulleys implanted in your face that simulates respectful attention no matter who is talking.

Email With Your Eyeballs, Change Channels With Your Spleen Peter Jeffrey 2012

Based on testing, the camera records a frame 20 times per second, which is slower than the Tobii T60 60 times per second, but is enough for the relatively slow effects I study.

Lab Notebook: Building a Better Eyetracker GamesWithWords 2010

I'll be going to Taiwan to run some experiments in March, and I won't be taking the Tobii with me.

Archive 2010-02-01 GamesWithWords 2010

In the lab, we use an automated eyetracker the Tobii T60, which can record in real time what people are looking at.

Lab Notebook: Building a Better Eyetracker GamesWithWords 2010

This is a slower method than using the Tobii, because you have to code where the participant is looking frame-by-frame in each video Tobii does all that automatically.

Lab Notebook: Building a Better Eyetracker GamesWithWords 2010

This is a slower method than using the Tobii, because you have to code where the participant is looking frame-by-frame in each video Tobii does all that automatically.

Archive 2010-02-01 GamesWithWords 2010

I'll be going to Taiwan to run some experiments in March, and I won't be taking the Tobii with me.

Lab Notebook: Building a Better Eyetracker GamesWithWords 2010

And it has much less resolution that Tobii, which can record where a participant is looking down to an inch or so, whereas with Poor Man's we can only get quadrants of a screen.

Archive 2010-02-01 GamesWithWords 2010