CPSC 412/612 Eye Tracking Methodology and Applications
Fall 2008
<http://andrewd.ces.clemson.edu/courses/cpsc412/fall08/sched.html>

3:30-4:45TTH Daniel 408

Schedule

DateL#Topic
Thu. Aug.2101 Class cancelledGaCIT Summer Course
Tue. Aug.2602 Introduction; course overview; review of past years' published papers: Topics:
  1. Overview of eye tracking systems, applications, and integration: SIGGRAPH course notes
Thu. Aug.2803 Field trip to VR lab (McAdams 304B)
Tue. Sep.0204 Book chapters/sections:
  1. Chp.09: Table-Mounted System Hardware Installation
  2. Chp.10: Table-Mounted System Software Development
  3. Chp.11: Table-Mounted System Calibration
  4. 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. Sep.0405 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.0906 Team selections due

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?
Thu. Sep.1107 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)?
Tue. Sep.1608 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)
Thu. Sep.1809 Pre-proposals due

Papers relevant to projects:

  1. (Reading: effect of font?)
    Rayner, K. 1998. Eye Movements in Reading and Information Processing: 20 Years of Research, Psychological Bulletin, 124(3), 372—422.
  2. (Visual search: detection or discrimination?)
    Murphy, H. A., Duchowski, A. T., and Tyrrell, R. A. 2008. `Hybrid Image/Model-Based Gaze-Contingent Rendering, Transactions on Applied Perception (to appear).
  3. (Cross-cultural eye movement differences?)
    Josephson, S. and Holmes, M. E. 2008. Cross-race recognition deficit and visual attention: do they all look (at faces) alike?. In Proceedings of the 2008 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications (Savannah, Georgia, March 26 - 28, 2008). ETRA '08. ACM, New York, NY, 157-164. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1344471.1344513
Tue. Sep.2311 Papers:
  1. Velichkovsky, B.M., Joos, M., Helmert, J.R., & Pannasch, S. (2005). Two visual systems and their eye movements: evidence from static and dynamic scene perception. CogSci 2005: Proceedings of the XXVII Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. July 21-23 Stresa, Italy, pp. 2283-2288.
  2. Gugerty, L., Tyrrell, R. A., Aten, T. R., and Edmonds, K. A. 2004. The effects of subpixel addressing on users' performance and preferences during reading-related tasks. ACM Trans. Appl. Percept. 1, 2 (Oct. 2004), 81-101.
    DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1024083.1024084
  3. Chua, H. F., Boland, J., & Nisbett, R. E. (2005). Cultural variation in eye movements during scene perception. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 102, 12629-12633.
  4. T. Masuda, R. Gonzalez, L. Kwan, and R. E. Nisbett Culture and Aesthetic Preference: Comparing the Attention to Context of East Asians and Americans, Pers Soc Psychol Bull 2008 34:1260-1275
    doi:10.1177/0146167208320555
Thu. Sep.2510 Papers:
  1. Kramer, Arthur F. and McCarley, Jason S. 2003 Theor. Issues in Ergon. Sci., 4(1-2), 21-44.
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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. Sep.3012 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.
Thu. Oct.0213 Working program due (w/out eye tracking component)

Demo day: meet in eye tracking lab

Tue. Oct.0714 Papers:
  1. short01.pdf
  2. short02.pdf
  3. long01.pdf
  4. long02.pdf
  5. short04.pdf
Thu. Oct.0915 Experimental issues: experimental design (part 1)
Tue. Oct.1416 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.
Thu. Oct.1617 MIDTERM
Tue. Oct.2118 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.
Thu. Oct.2319 Book chapters/sections:
  1. Chp.01: Visual Attention
Tue. Oct.2820 Book chapters/sections:
  1. Chp.02: Neurological Substrate of the HVS (The Eye; The Retina)
Thu. Oct.3021 Book chapters/sections:
  1. Chp.02: Neurological Substrate of the HVS (The Optic Tract; The Occipital Cortex; Visual Pathways)
Tue. Nov.04-- Fall Break
Thu. Nov.0622 Start data analysis

Book chapters/sections:

  1. Chp.04: Taxonomy and Models of Eye movements
  2. Chp.03: Visual Psychophysics (Spatial Vision; Temporal Vision; Color Vision)
Tue. Nov.1123 Review of text chapters/technical papers
Final Exam handed out

Thu. Nov.1324 Lab exercise (meet in 304B McAdams lab)
Start writing papers
Tue. Nov.1825 Class cancelledSC 08

Thu. Nov.2026 Class cancelledSC 08

Tue. Nov.2527 READING DAY
Thu. Nov.27-- Thanksgiving
Tue. Dec.0228 Final Exam Due

Thu. Dec.0429 Final Paper Due
Fri. Dec.1230 FINAL EXAM: Project Presentations 11:30am-2:00pm