The scope of the Symposium falls within a fairly narrow technological domain, yet it spans a vast range of interdisciplinary research activities. There are at least three broad interdisciplinary domains that stand to benefit from eye tracking research: visual perception, human-computer interaction, and computer graphics. The amalgamation of these topics forms a symbiotic relationship. Graphical techniques provide a means of generating rich sets of visual stimuli ranging from 2D imagery to 3D immersive virtual worlds while research exploring visual attention and perception in turn influences the generation of artificial scenes and worlds. Applications derived from these disciplines create a powerful human-computer interaction modality, namely interaction based on knowledge of the user's gaze.

Applied papers reporting on the development or use of eye tracking systems are sought falling in two main categories: (a) real-time interactive systems, and (b) off-line diagnostic applications. Examples of the former include applications where the display or form of interaction depends on real-time knowledge of the user's direction of gaze, e.g., ``gaze-contingent'' interactive environments. Applications falling in the latter category involve recording real-time eye movements over a visual stimulus for later off-line analysis, e.g., gaze information supporting usability studies.

While the Eye Tracking Symposium is primarily directed towards eye tracking applications, papers on theoretical aspects of eye movements and cognition are also encouraged. Examples may include papers elucidating the neurological substrate of human vision, visual attention and eye movements, or papers suggesting techniques for characterization and automatic identification of eye movements, e.g., saccade/fixation detection.

In short, high-quality research papers are sought from anyone developing or using eye tracking technology. Suggested top-level paper categories include:

Principles

neurological basis for eye movements; eye movement signal characteristics

Methods

eye movement characterization, e.g., saccade detection

Systems

description of applied eye tracking systems, e.g.,

• real-time interactive systems, e.g.,
  • systems helping people with profound disabilities
  • gaze-aware communication and gaze-contingent graphics systems
• off-line diagnostic systems, e.g.,
  • eye tracking systems supporting usability studies
  • scanpath recording systems for eye movement analysis

Formal presentations

Presentations will be short (about 20 minutes) and limited to 3 per session. Presenters are asked to prepare their presentations in MS PowerPoint format. An LCD projector will be provided to allow speakers to connect their laptops.

Pre-symposium information

A symposium program identifying accepted papers, listing contributors and paper titles, will be made available before the event.

General Chair: Andrew T. Duchowski andrewd@cs.clemson.edu Computer Science Clemson University Clemson, SC 29634-0974 USA

Program Co-Chairs: John W. Senders jw.senders@utoronto.ca Mech. & Indust. Eng. University of Toronto Toronto, ON Canada M6R 2X5 Roel Vertegaal roel@cs.queensu.ca Computer Science Queen's University Kingston, ON Canada K7L 3N6

Program Committee:

Antti Aaltonen (Nokia Research Center, Finland) Wendy Ark (IBM Almaden, USA) Mike Byrne (Rice University, TX, USA) Martha Crosby (University of Hawaii, HI, USA) Mike Daily (HRL Laboratories, USA) Myron Flickner (IBM Almaden, USA) James Gips (Boston College, MA, USA) Joe Goldberg (Oracle, USA) Brooke Hallowell (Ohio University, OH, USA) Tom Hutchinson (University of Virginia, VA, USA) Aulikki Hyrskykari (University of Tampere, Finland) Poika Isokoski (University of Tampere, Finland) Robert Jacob (Tufts University, MA, USA) Keith Karn (Xerox, NY, USA) David Luebke (University of Virginia, VA, USA)

Sohel Merchant (University of Iowa, USA) Minoru Nakayama (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) N. Hari Narayanan (Auburn University, AL, USA) Wilfried Osberger (Tektronix, USA) Carol O'Sullivan (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland) Timo Partala (University of Tempere, Finland) Stefano Ramat (Johns Hopkins Hospital, USA) Carlo Robino (University of Pavia, Italy) Waldemar Rojna (Consultant, Poznan, Poland) Tom Schnell (University of Iowa, IA, USA) Charles Scialfa (University of Calgary, Canada) Trent Victor (Volvo, Sweden) David Wooding (University of Derby, UK) Daniela Zambarbieri (University of Pavia, Italy)