CPSC 412/612 Eye Tracking Methodology and Applications
Fall 2007
<http://andrewd.ces.clemson.edu/courses/cpsc412/fall07/sched.html>

3:30-4:45TTH McAdams 114

Schedule

DateL#Topic
Thu. Aug.2301 Introduction; course overview; review of past years' published papers: Topics:
  1. Overview of eye tracking systems, applications, and integration: SIGGRAPH course notes
Field trip to VR lab (McAdams 304B) (time permitting)
Tue. Aug.2802 Book chapters/sections:
  1. Chp.09: Table-Mounted System Hardware Installation
  2. Chp.10: Table-Mounted System Software Development
  3. Tobii architecture
Code:
  1. Tobii API
  2. simple: *.h, *.c, *.cpp, see: implementation.pdf
  3. glut-pthreads: *.h, *.c, *.cpp, see: makefile.pdf, interface.pdf, implementation.pdf
Thu. Aug.3003 Team/Project selections (preliminary)

Book chapters/sections:

  • Sections 17.4—17.9
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?
Tue. Sep.0404 Class cancelled
COGAIN
Thu. Sep.0605 Class cancelled
EuroGraphics
Tue. Sep.1106 Team selections due

Book chapters/sections:

  1. Chp.11: Table-Mounted System Calibration
Thu. Sep.1307 Book chapters/sections:
  1. Sections 18.1—18.4
    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?
Tue. Sep.1808 Book chapters/sections:
  1. Sections 20.1—20.3
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)?
Thu. Sep.2009 Book chapters/sections:
  1. Chp.12: Eye Movement Analysis
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.
  3. Salvucci, D. D. and Goldberg, J. H. 2000. Identifying fixations and saccades in eye-tracking protocols. In Proceedings of the 2000 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, United States, November 06 - 08, 2000). ETRA '00. ACM Press, New York, NY, 71-78. DOI: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/355017.355028
Code:
  1. gci++: src/capture/callbacks.c
  2. gci++: src/seriallib/, src/iscanlib
  3. gci++: src/porlib/
  4. LC Tech Fixation Analysis Functions (for real-time or offline implementation)
Tue. Sep.2510 Pre-proposals due

Papers relevant to projects:

  1. Bartels, M. and Marshall, S. P., 2006, Eye tracking insights into cognitive modeling, In Proceedings of the 2006 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications (San Diego, California, March 27 - 29, 2006). ETRA '06. ACM Press, New York, NY, 141-147. DOI: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1117309.1117358
  2. d'Ydewalle, G., Desmet, G., & Van Rensbergen, J., 1998, Film perception: The processing of film cuts. In G. Underwood (Ed.), Eye guidance in reading and scene perception (pp. 357-367). Oxford: Elsevier.
  3. Brock, Derek, McClimens, Brian, Hornof, Anthony, and Halverson, Tim, 2006, Cognitive Models of the Effect of Audio Cueing on Attentional Shifts in a Complex Multimodal, Dual-Display Dual Task, in Proceedings of the 28th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Vancouver, BC, July 26-29, pp. 1044-1049.
  4. Chan, Alan H. S. and Tang, Natalie Y. W., 2007, Visual lobe shape and search performance for targets of different difficulty, Ergonomics, 50(2), pp. 289–318 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00140130601068709
Thu. Sep.2711 ETRA '06 Papers:
  1. Josephson, S. and Holmes, M. E. 2006. Clutter or content?: How on-screen enhancements affect how TV viewers scan and what they learn. In Proceedings of the 2006 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research &Amp; Applications (San Diego, California, March 27 - 29, 2006). ETRA '06. ACM Press, New York, NY, 155-162. DOI: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1117309.1117361
  2. Croft, J. L., Pittman, D. J., and Scialfa, C. 2006. Gaze behavior of spotters during an air-to-ground search. In Proceedings of the 2006 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research &Amp; Applications (San Diego, California, March 27 - 29, 2006). ETRA '06. ACM Press, New York, NY, 163-179. DOI: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1117309.1117362
  3. Böhme, M., Dorr, M., Martinetz, T., and Barth, E. 2006. Gaze-contingent temporal filtering of video. In Proceedings of the 2006 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research &Amp; Applications (San Diego, California, March 27 - 29, 2006). ETRA '06. ACM Press, New York, NY, 109-115. DOI: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1117309.1117353
  4. Miniotas, D., Spakov, O., Tugoy, I., and MacKenzie, I. S. 2006. Speech-augmented eye gaze interaction with small closely spaced targets. In Proceedings of the 2006 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research &Amp; Applications (San Diego, California, March 27 - 29, 2006). ETRA '06. ACM Press, New York, NY, 67-72. DOI: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1117309.1117345
Tue. Oct.0212 Class cancelled
Thu. Oct.0413 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.
Tue. Oct.0914 Working program due (w/out eye tracking component)

Demo day: meet in eye tracking lab

Thu. Oct.1115 Experimental issues: experimental design (part 1)
Tue. Oct.1616 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.
Thu. Oct.1817 Experimental issues: experimental design (part 2)

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.
Tue. Oct.2318 MIDTERM
Thu. Oct.2519 Start running experiments

SIGCHI '90, '99 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.
Tue. Oct.3020 Book chapters/sections:
  1. Chp.01: Visual Attention
Thu. Nov.0121 Book chapters/sections:
  1. Chp.02: Neurological Substrate of the HVS (The Eye; The Retina)
Tue. Nov.06-- Book chapters/sections:
  1. Chp.02: Neurological Substrate of the HVS (The Optic Tract; The Occipital Cortex)
Thu. Nov.0822 Start data analysis

Book chapters/sections:

  1. Chp.02: Neurological Substrate of the HVS (The Brain & Visual Pathways)
Tue. Nov.1323 Book chapters/sections:
  1. Chp.04: Taxonomy and Models of Eye movements
Thu. Nov.1524 Book chapters/sections:
  1. Chp.03: Visual Psychophysics (Spatial Vision; Temporal Vision; Color Vision)
Final Exam handed out

Tue. Nov.2025 Start writing papers

Student Evaluations (online, no class)

Thu. Nov.22-- Thanksgiving
Tue. Nov.2726 Review of text chapters/technical papers
Thu. Nov.2927 Reading Day
Tue. Dec.0428 Final Exam Due

Thu. Dec.0629 Final Paper Due
Sat. Dec.0830 FINAL EXAM: Project Presentations 8:00am-11:00am