CPSC 412/681 Eye Tracking Methodology and Applications
Fall 2002
<http://andrewd.ces.clemson.edu/courses/cpsc412/fall02/sched.html>

3:30-4:45TTH Jordan G032

Schedule
(Tentative)

DateL#Topic
Thu. Aug.2201 Introduction; course overview
Tue. Aug.2702 Chp.05: Eye Tracking Techniques & Chp.06: System Hardware Installation
(overview of eye tracking systems, applications, and integration)
SIGGRAPH course notes
Team/Project selections (preliminary)
Thu. Aug.2903 Field trip to VR lab (Rhodes 311)
Tue. Sep.0304 Class cancelled
Self-study Assignments: Read the following book chapter/sections:
  1. Sections 11.4--11.9
They are available here. Prepare notes, listing:
  1. Topics:
    1. Reading: importance of eye movements in reading (vs. tachistoscopic studies)
    2. Scene perception: compare and contrast scene perception vs. reading
    3. Visual search: what is the consensus view of visual search, e.g., how does vision work in this task? Is performance task-dependent?
    4. Natural tasks: in what kinds of tasks have eye movements been recorded? What has been learned?
  2. References:
    1. Who are the significant contributors to research?
    2. Where are they located?
    3. What have they contributed, why is it important?
Thu. Sep.0505 Class cancelled
Self-study Assignments: Read the following book chapter/sections:
  1. Sections 12.1--12.4
They are available here. Prepare notes, listing:
  1. Topics:
    1. Aviation: Where do pilots look? Why is it important?
    2. Driving: Where do drivers look?
    3. Visual inspection: what are the important eye movement metrics to record in this task?
  2. References:
    1. Who are the significant contributors to research?
    2. Where are they located?
    3. What have they contributed, why is it important?
Tue. Sep.1006 Class cancelled
Self-study Assignments: Read the following book chapter/sections:
  1. Sections 14.1--14.3
They are available here. Prepare notes, listing:
  1. Topics:
    1. HCI: What's the difference between diganostic and interactive uses of eye trackers, i.e., how differently must the system respond?
    2. Gaze-Contingent Displays: What's the difference between the two different approaches (screen-based and model-based)?
  2. References:
    1. Who are the significant contributors to research?
    2. Where are they located?
    3. What have they contributed, why is it important?
Thu. Sep.1207 Class cancelled
Self-study Assignments: Read the following papers:
  1. Starker, India, and Bolt, Richard A., A Gaze-Responsive Self-Disclosing Display, in CHI'90 Proceedings, ACM, New York, NY, 1990.
  2. Jacob, Robert J. K., What You Look At Is What You Get: Eye Movement-Based Interaction Techniques, in CHI'90 Proceedings, ACM, New York, NY, 1990.
  3. Vertegaal, Roel, The GAZE Groupware System: Mediating Joint Attention in Multiparty Communication and Collaboration, in CHI'99 Proceedings, ACM, New York, NY, 1999.
  4. Zhai, S., Morimoto, C., and Ihde, Steven, Manual and Gaze Input Cascaded (MAGIC) Pointing, in CHI'99 Proceedings, ACM, New York, NY, 1999.
  5. Byrne, Michael D., Anderson, John R., Douglass, Scott, and Matessa, Michael, Eye Tracking the Visual Search of Click-Down Menus, in CHI'99 Proceedings, ACM, New York, NY, 1999.
They are available here. Prepare a summary of each paper, listing:
  1. Goals/objectives
  2. Background/summary
  3. Theories/Hypotheses
  4. Experimental Methodology
    1. apparatus
    2. subjects
    3. experimental design
    4. analysis
  5. Results
  6. Discussion
  7. Conclusion(s)
Tue. Sep.1708 Review of text chapters/technical papers.
Thu. Sep.1909 Eye tracking applications: ETRA'00
Student paper presentations
Papers:
  1. Eric C. Crowe and N. Hari Narayanan, Comparing Interfaces Based on What Users Watch and Do, in Proceedings of the Eye Tracking Research & Applications Symposium (ETRA), ACM, New York, NY, 2000.
  2. Poika Isokoski, Text Input Methods for Eye Trackers Using Off-Screen Targets, in Proceedings of the Eye Tracking Research & Applications Symposium (ETRA), ACM, New York, NY, 2000.
  3. Jeff B. Pelz, Roxanne Canosa, Jason Babcock, Extended Tasks Elicit Complex Eye Movement Patterns in Proceedings of the Eye Tracking Research & Applications Symposium (ETRA), ACM, New York, NY, 2000.
  4. Derrick Parkhurst, Eugenio Culurciello, and Ernst Niebur, Evaluating Variable Resolution Displays with Visual Search: Task Performance and Eye Movements, in Proceedings of the Eye Tracking Research & Applications Symposium (ETRA), ACM, New York, NY, 2000.
Tue. Sep.2410 Eye tracking applications: ETRA'02
Student paper presentations
Papers:
  1. Mary M. Hayhoe, Dana H. Ballard, Jochen Triesch, Hiroyuki Shinoda, Pilar Aivar, and Brian Sullivan, Vision in Natural and Virtual Environments, in Proceedings of the Eye Tracking Research & Applications Symposium (ETRA), New Orleans, LA, 2002, ACM.
  2. Paivi Majaranta and Kari-Jouko Raiha, Twenty Years of Eye Typing: Systems and Design Issues, in Proceedings of the Eye Tracking Research & Applications Symposium (ETRA), New Orleans, LA, 2002, ACM.
  3. David S. Wooding, Fixation Maps: Quantifying Eye-Movement Traces, in Proceedings of the Eye Tracking Research & Applications Symposium (ETRA), New Orleans, LA, 2002, ACM.
  4. Joseph H. Goldberg, Mark J. Stimson, Marion Lewenstein, Neil Scott, and Anna M. Wichansky, Eye Tracking in Web Search Tasks: Design Implications in Proceedings of the Eye Tracking Research & Applications Symposium (ETRA), New Orleans, LA, 2002, ACM.
Thu. Sep.2611 Experimental issues: experimental design
Tue. Oct.0112 Experimental issues: data analysis and interpretation
Thu. Oct.0313 Chp.07: System Software Development (technical considerations: parts of the program; image display; GUI, VR/graphics, images; drivers; system timing, data storage)

viewppm.c

Proposals due

Tue. Oct.0814 Chp.07: System Software Development (technical considerations: parts of the program; image display; GUI, VR/graphics, images; drivers; system timing, data storage)

viewppm-scene-target.c

Thu. Oct.1015 Chp.07: System Software Development (technical considerations: parts of the program; image display; GUI, VR/graphics, images; drivers; system timing, data storage)

gci++: main.cxx

Tue. Oct.1516 Chp.07: System Software Development (technical considerations: parts of the program; image display; GUI, VR/graphics, images; drivers; system timing, data storage)

gci++: callbacks.c, iscanlib

Thu. Oct.1717 Chp.08: System Calibration & Chp.09: Eye Movement Analysis (technical considerations: eye movement analysis and prediction)
Relevant Papers:
  1. Anliker, James, Eye Movements: On-Line Measurement, Analysis, and Control in Eye Movements and Psychological Processes, Monty, Richard A., and Senders, John W., eds., Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ, 1976.
  2. Tole, J. R., and Young, L. R., Digital Filters for Saccade and Fixation Detection, in Eye Movements: Cognition and Visual Perception, Fisher, Dennis F., Monty, Richard A., and Senders, John W., eds., Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ, 1981.
Tue. Oct.2218 Chp.01: Visual Attention
Thu. Oct.2419 Class cancelled
Self-study Assignments: Read the following book chapters/sections:
  1. Chp.02: Neurological Substrate of the HVS
Tue. Oct.2920 Chp.02: Neurological Substrate of the HVS (The Eye; The Retina; The Optic Tract; The Occipital Cortex)
Thu. Oct.3121 Class cancelled
Self-study Assignments: Read the following book chapters/sections:
  1. Chp.03: Visual Psychophysics
Tue. Nov.05-- Fall Break
Thu. Nov.0722 Chp.03: Visual Psychophysics (Spatial Vision; Temporal Vision; Color Vision)
Tue. Nov.1223 Midterm review
Thu. Nov.1424 MIDTERM
Tue. Nov.1925 Chp.03: Visual Psychophysics (Spatial Vision; Temporal Vision; Color Vision)
Thu. Nov.2126 Chp.04: Taxonomy and Models of Eye movements
Tue. Nov.2627 Chp.04: Taxonomy and Models of Eye movements
Thu. Nov.28-- Thanksgiving
Tue. Dec.0328 Course Summary & Review
Thu. Dec.0529 Project Presentations
Sat. Dec.0730 FINAL EXAM 8:00am-11:00am