CPSC 412/612 Eye Tracking Methodology and Applications
Fall 2004
<http://andrewd.ces.clemson.edu/courses/cpsc412/fall04/sched.html>

12:30-1:45TTH McAdams 114

Schedule
(Tentative)

DateL#Topic
Thu. Aug.1901 Introduction; course overview
Tue. Aug.2402 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
Thu. Aug.2603 Field trip to VR lab (McAdams 304B)
Tue. Aug.3104 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
Team/Project selections (preliminary)
Thu. Sep.0205 Team selections due

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.0706 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. glut-pthreads: *.h, *.c, *.cpp, see: Tobii Client Library
Thu. Sep.0907 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.1408 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
  3. or Tobii Client Library
Thu. Sep.1609 Pre-proposals due

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.2110 Experimental issues: experimental design (general)
Thu. Sep.2311 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.2812 Working program due (w/out eye tracking component)

Demo day: meet in eye tracking lab

Thu. Sep.3013 Experimental issues: experimental design
Tue. Oct.0514 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)
Thu. Oct.0715 Class Cancelled: Reading Day
Tue. Oct.1216 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.

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.1417 MIDTERM
Tue. Oct.19-- Start running experiments

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)
Thu. Oct.2118 ETRA'04 Papers:
  1. Anthony Santella and Doug DeCarlo, Robust Clustering of Eye Movement Recordings of Quantification of Visual Interest, in Proceedings of the Eye Tracking Research & Applications Symposium (ETRA), San Antonio, TX, 2004, ACM.
  2. Benjamin Law, M. Stell Atkins, A. E., Kirkpatrick, Alan J. Lomax, and Christine L. Mackenzie, Eye Gaze Patterns Differentiate Novice and Experts in a Virtual Laparaoscopic Surgery Training Environment, in Proceedings of the Eye Tracking Research & Applications Symposium (ETRA), San Antonio, TX, 2004, ACM.
  3. Jason S. Babcock and Jeff B. Pelz, Building a Lightweight Eyetracking Headgear, in Proceedings of the Eye Tracking Research & Applications Symposium (ETRA), San Antonio, TX, 2004, ACM.
  4. Paivi Majaranta, Anne Aula, and Kari-Jouko Raiha, Effects of Feedback on Eye Typing with a Short Dwell Time, in Proceedings of the Eye Tracking Research & Applications Symposium (ETRA), San Antonio, TX, 2004, 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.2620 Book chapters/sections:
  1. Chp.01: Visual Attention
Thu. Oct.2821 Book chapters/sections:
  1. Chp.02: Neurological Substrate of the HVS
Tue. Nov.02-- Fall Break
Thu. Nov.0422 Start data analysis

Book chapters/sections:

  1. Chp.02: Neurological Substrate of the HVS (The Eye; The Retina; The Optic Tract; The Occipital Cortex)
Tue. Nov.0923 Book chapters/sections:
  1. Chp.04: Taxonomy and Models of Eye movements
Thu. Nov.1124 Book chapters/sections:
  1. Chp.05: Eye Tracking Systems
Tue. Nov.1625 Start writing papers

Book chapters/sections:

  1. Chp.03: Visual Psychophysics (Spatial Vision; Temporal Vision; Color Vision)
Thu. Nov.1826 Review of text chapters/technical papers
Tue. Nov.2327 Reading Day
Thu. Nov.25-- Thanksgiving
Tue. Nov.3028 Final Exam handed out

Student Evaluations

Thu. Dec.0229 Final Exam Due

Final Paper Due

Fri. Dec.1030 FINAL EXAM: Project Presentations 1:00pm-4:00pm