CPSC 412/612 Eye Tracking Methodology and Applications
Fall 2003
<http://andrewd.ces.clemson.edu/courses/cpsc412/fall03/sched.html>

3:30-4:45TTH Jordan G032

Schedule
(Tentative)

DateL#Topic
Thu. Aug.2101 Introduction; course overview
Tue. Aug.2602 Book chapters/sections:
  • Chp.05: Eye Tracking Techniques
  • Chp.06: System Hardware Installation
Topics:
  1. Overview of eye tracking systems, applications, and integration: SIGGRAPH course notes
Team/Project selections (preliminary)
Thu. Aug.2803 Field trip to VR lab (Rhodes 311)
Tue. Sep.0204 Book chapters/sections:
  1. Chp.07: System Software Development (technical considerations: parts of the program; image display; GUI, VR/graphics, images; drivers; system timing, data storage)
Code:
  1. gci++: src/capture/main.cxx
  2. gci++: src/capture/mgr.cxx
Proposals due
Thu. Sep.0405 Book chapters/sections:
  • Sections 11.4--11.9
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?
Pay attention to:
  1. Who are the significant contributors to research?
  2. Where are they located?
  3. What have they contributed, why is it important?
Tue. Sep.0906 Book chapters/sections:
  1. Chp.07: System Software Development (technical considerations: parts of the program; image display; GUI, VR/graphics, images; drivers; system timing, data storage)
Code:
  1. gci++: src/capture/callbacks.c
Thu. Sep.1107 Book chapters/sections:
  1. Sections 12.1--12.4
    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?
Pay attention to:
  1. Who are the significant contributors to research?
  2. Where are they located?
  3. What have they contributed, why is it important?
Tue. Sep.1608 Book chapters/sections:
  1. Chp.07: System Software Development (technical considerations: parts of the program; image display; GUI, VR/graphics, images; drivers; system timing, data storage)
Code:
  1. gci++: src/capture/callbacks.c
  2. gci++: src/seriallib/, src/iscanlib
Thu. Sep.1809 Book chapters/sections:
  1. Sections 14.1--14.3
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)?
Pay attention to:
  1. Who are the significant contributors to research?
  2. Where are they located?
  3. What have they contributed, why is it important?
Tue. Sep.2310 Experimental issues: experimental design (general)
Thu. Sep.2511 Pre-proposals due

SIGCHI 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.
Pay attention to:
  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.3012 Experimental issues: experimental design
Thu. Oct.0213 ETRA'00 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.
Pay attention to:
  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. Oct.0714 Lab day: meet in eye tracking lab
Thu. Oct.0915 Working program due (w/out eye tracking component)

Demo day: meet in eye tracking lab

Tue. Oct.1416 Book chapters/sections:
  1. Chp.08: System Calibration
  2. 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.
Thu. Oct.1617 Full proposals due

I'll be looking for:

  • Introduction (goals/motivation/hypotheses of study, properly referenced)
  • Background (what's been done by others already, properly referenced)
  • Methodology
    • Apparatus
    • Stimulus (one or two screenshots of your display)
    • Subjects
    • Experimental Design
    • Procedure(s)
You should use the ACM SIGGRAPH format for the paper, which is avaialable here: < http://www.siggraph.org/publications/instructions/ >. The link should contain both Word and Latex style files (templates). Note: the above will form about 2/3 of your final report, so it's good to invest the time now; you'll then only need to add in the results, discussion, and conclusion sections following analysis of your experiment.

ETRA'02 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.
Pay attention to:
  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. Oct.21-- Fall Break
Thu. Oct.2318 Book chapters/sections:
  1. Chp.01: Visual Attention
Tue. Oct.2819 Book chapters/sections:
  1. Chp.02: Neurological Substrate of the HVS
Thu. Oct.3020 MIDTERM
Tue. Nov.0421 Book chapters/sections:
  1. Chp.02: Neurological Substrate of the HVS (The Eye; The Retina; The Optic Tract; The Occipital Cortex)
Thu. Nov.0622 Book chapters/sections:
  1. Chp.03: Visual Psychophysics
Tue. Nov.1123 Book chapters/sections:
  1. Chp.03: Visual Psychophysics (Spatial Vision; Temporal Vision; Color Vision)
Thu. Nov.1324 Book chapters/sections:
  1. Chp.03: Visual Psychophysics (Spatial Vision; Temporal Vision; Color Vision)
Tue. Nov.1825 Book chapters/sections:
  1. Chp.04: Taxonomy and Models of Eye movements
Thu. Nov.2026 Review of text chapters/technical papers
Tue. Nov.2527 Student Evaluations
Thu. Nov.27-- Thanksgiving
Tue. Dec.0228 Final Exam Due
Thu. Dec.0429 Final Paper Due
Sat. Dec.0630 FINAL EXAM: Project Presentations 8:00am-11:00am