You can always change this.

During last spring our mini research group on eye-tracking sharply expanded from one to about four members, as we got some talented master-students. Among others, we came up with two interesting topics, Tersia has been working on a gaze-aware game interface and Alfya is implementing a gaze-added digital-tv interface.

These topics were motivated by the fact that at the moment there are not many applications that would utilize gaze-direction as an interaction modality. I believe that one way of promoting the gaze-aware interaction and thereby decreasing the curently high prices of eye-tracking is to create more applications that make use of the eye. (About current efforts in decreasing the prices of eye-tracking, look at $1 000 000 challenge here).

To our great suprise, this call for student competition in creating gaze-aware interfaces has arrived last week. To me it indicates that our thoughts during the spring were heading in the right direction. So, both Alfya and Tersia will submit their applications and I wish they both can win the main prize!

Later durign the fall we will invite you all to come and test our new stuff, check back soon!

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