Eye Tracking Research & Applications Symposium

Eye Tracking Research & Applications

Symposium 2008

Program

WEDNESDAY, 26 March 2008

9:00am - 10:30am Special Session 1: Opening Remarks & Keynote Address

Opening Remarks
Carlos H. Morimoto

Keynote: On the Ease and Efficiency of Human Computer Interfaces
Shumin Zhai (IBM Almaden, USA)

10:30am break

11:00am - 12:30pm Paper Session 1: Eye Typing
Session chair: Päivi Majaranta

Longitudinal Evaluation of Discrete Consecutive Gaze Gestures for Text Entry
Jacob O. Wobbrock (University of Washington), James Rubinstein, Michael W. Sawyer^†, and Andrew T. Duchowski (Clemson University, USA)

Now Dasher! Dash Away! Longitudinal Study of Fast Text Entry by Eye Gaze
Outi Tuisku^†, Päivi Majaranta, Poika Isokoski, and Kari-Jouko Räihä (University of Tampere, Finland)

Eye-S: a Full-Screen Input Modality for Pure Eye-based Communication
Marco Porta^† and Matteo Turina (University of Pavia, Italy)

12:30pm lunch

2:00pm - 3:30pm Late Breaking Results: Oral Presentations
Session chair: Aulikki Hyrskykari

Measurement of Eye Velocity Using Active Illumination
Jeffrey B. Mulligan (NASA Ames Research Center, USA)

A Method to Study Visual Attention Aspects of Collaboration: Eye-Tracking Pair Programmers Simultaneously
Sami Pietinen, Roman Bednarik, Tatiana Glotova, Vesa Tenhunen, and Markku Tukiainen (University of Joensuu, Finland)

Testing for Statistically Significant Differences Between Groups of Scan Patterns
Matt Feusner (University of California, San Francisco, USA) and Brian Lukoff (Stanford University, USA)

Improving Hands-free Menu Selection Using Eyegaze Glances and Fixations
Geoffrey Tien and M. Stella Atkins (Simon Fraser University, Canada)

Gazing with pEYEs
Anke Huckauf and Mario H. Urbina (Bauhaus-Universitaet Weimar, Weimar, Germany)

Eye Typing Using Word and Letter Prediction and a Fixation Algorithm
I. Scott MacKenzie and Xuan Zhang (York University, Canada)

3:30pm break

4:00pm - 5:30pm Late Breaking Results: Poster Presentations

3D Point-of-Gaze Estimation on a Volumetric Display
Craig Hennessey and Peter Lawrence (University of British Columbia, Canada)

Limbus/Pupil Switching for Wearable Eye Tracking Under Variable Lighting Conditions
Wayne J. Ryan, Andrew T. Duchowski, and Stan T. Birchfield (Clemson University, USA)

Improving the Accuracy of Gaze Input for Interaction
Manu Kumar (GazeWorks, Inc.), Jeff Klingner, Rohan Puranik, Terry Winograd, and Andreas Paepcke (Stanford University, USA)

Measuring the Task-Evoked Pupillary Response with a Remote Eye Tracker
Jeff Klingner, Rakshit Kumar, and Pat Hanrahan (Stanford University, USA)

Estimation of Certainty for Multiple Choice Tasks Using Features of Eye-movements
Minoru Nakayama and Yoshiyuki Takahasi (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)

Assessing Usability with Eye-Movement Frequency Analysis
Minoru Nakayama and Makoto Katsukura (CRADLE, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)

Integrated Speech and Gaze Control for Realistic Desktop Environments
Emiliano Castellina, Fulvio Corno, and Paolo Pellegrino (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)

Comparing Behavioural and Self-Report Measures of Engagement with an Embodied Conversational Agent: A first report on Eye Tracking in Second Life
Sara Dalzel-Job, Craig Nicol, and Jon Oberlander (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)

A Head-Mounted Sensor-based Eye Tracking Device: Eye Touch System
Cihan Topal, Omer Nezih Gerek, and Atakan Dogan (Anadolu University, Turkey)

Evaluating Requirements for Gaze-Based Interaction in a See-through Head Mounted Display
Sven-Thomas Graupner, Michael Heubner, Sebastian Pannasch, and Boris M. Velichkovsky (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)

One-point Calibration Gaze Tracking Based on Eyeball Kinematics Using Stereo Cameras
Takashi Nagamatsu, Junzo Kamahara, Takumi Iko, and Naoki Tanaka (Kobe University, Japan)

Temporal Eye-Tracking Data: Evolution of Debugging Strategies with Multiple Representations
Roman Bednarik and Markku Tukiainen (University of Joensuu, Finland)

EyeSecret: An Inexpensive but High Performance Auto-Calibration Eye Tracker
Zhang Yun, Zhao Xin-Bo, Zhao Rong-Chun, Zhou Yuan, and Zou Xiao-Chun (Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xian, Shaanxi, China)

KiEV: A Tool for Visualization of Reading and Writing Processes in Translation of Text
Oleg Spakov and Kari-Jouko Räihä (University of Tampere, Finland)

The Incomplete Fixation Measure
Frederick Shic, Katarzyna Chawarska, and Brian Scassellati (Yale University, USA)

Voluntary Pupil Size Change as Control in Eyes Only Interaction
Inger Ekman, Antti Poikola, Meeri Mäkäräinen, Tapio Takala (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland) and Perttu Hämäläinen (Virtual Air Guitar Company, Finland)

Contact-analog Information Representation in an Automotive Head-Up Display
T. Poitschke, M. Ablassmeier, and G. Rigoll (Technical University of Munich, Germany), S. Bardins, S. Kohlbecher, E. Schneider, and T. Brandt (Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany)

Effects of Time Pressure and Text Complexity on Translator’s Fixations
Selina Sharmin, Oleg Spakov, and Kari-Jouko-Räihä (University of Tampere, Finland), Arnt Lykke Jakobsen (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark)

Real-Time Simulation of Visual Defects with Gaze-Contingent Display
Margarita Vinnikov, Robert S. Allison, and Dominik Swierad (York University, Canada)

Comparison of Eye Movements in Searching for Easy-to-Find and Hard-to-Find Information in a Hierarchically Organized Information Structure
Yoshiko Habuchi, Muneo Kitajima, and Haruhiko Takeuchi (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan)

Calibration-free Eye Tracking by Reconstruction of the Pupil Ellipse in 3D Space
Stefan Kohlbecher, Stanislavs Bardins, and Klaus Bartl (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany), Tony Poitschke and Markus Ablassmeier (Technical University Munich, Germany), Erich Schneider (Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany)

Spatialchromatic Foveation for Gaze Contingent Displays
Sheng Liu and Hong Hua (University of Arizona, USA)

Using Semantic Content as Cues for Better Scanpath Prediction
Moran Cerf, E. Paxon Frady, and Christof Koch (California Institute of Technology, USA)

Eye2i: Coordinated Multiple Views for Gaze Data
Harri Rantala (University of Tampere, Finland)

GInX - Gaze Based Interface Extensions
Thiago Schumacher Barcelos and Carlos Hitoshi Morimoto (University of São Paulo, Brazil)

An Online Noise Filter for Eye-Tracker Data Recorded in a Virtual Environment
Sylvain Chartier (University of Ottawa, Canada) and Patrice Renaud (Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada)

THURSDAY, 27 March 2008

8:45am Exhibits Open

9:00am - 10:30am Paper Session 2: Looking at Faces, Chess Boards, and Maps
Session chair: Moshe Eizenman

Cross-race Recognition Deficit and Visual Attention: Do They All Look (at Faces) Alike?
Sheree Josephson^† (Weber State University, USA) and Michael E. Holmes (Ball State University, USA)

The Visual Span of Chess Players
Pieter Blignaut, Tanya Beelders^†, and Andy So^† (University of the Free State, South Africa)

Deixis and Gaze in Collaborative Work at a Distance (over a shared map): a Computational Model to Detect Misunderstandings
Mauro Cherubini^†, Marc-Antoine Nüssli, and Pierre Dillenbourg (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland)

10:30am break (in exhibits hall)

11:00am - 12:30pm Paper Session 3: Advances in Eye Tracking Technology
Session chair: Elias Guestrin

3D Point-of-Regard, Position and Head Orientation from a Portable Monocular Video-Based Eye Tracker
Susan Kolakowski-Munn^† and Jeff B. Pelz (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)

A Robust 3D Eye Gaze Tracking System using Noise Reduction
Jixu Chen^†, Yan Tong, Wayne Gray, and Qiang Ji (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)

A New Wireless Search-Coil System
Mark Shelhamer, Dale Roberts^†, and Aaron Wong (Johns Hopkins University, USA)

12:30pm lunch

2:00pm - 3:30pm Exhibits

3:30pm break (in exhibits hall)

4:00pm - 5:30pm Exhibits

5:45pm Exhibits Close

FRIDAY, 28 March 2008

9:00am - 10:30am Paper Session 4: Gaze Interfaces
Session chair: Mauro Cherubini

Noise Tolerant Selection by Gaze-Controlled Pan and Zoom in 3D
Dan Witzner Hansen^† (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark), John Paulin Hansen, Henrik Skovsgaard Jensen (IT University, Denmark), and Emilie Møllenback (Loughborough University, UK)

Looking my Way through the Menu: The Impact of Menu Design and Multimodal Input on Gaze-based Menu Selection
Yvonne Kammerer^† (Knowledge Media Research Center, Tuebingen Germany), Katharina Scheiter (University of Tuebingen, Germany), Wolfgang Beinhauer (Fraunhofer Insitute for Industrial Engineering, Germany)

Snap Clutch, a Moded Approach to Solving the Midas Touch Problem
Howell Istance^† and Richard Bates (De Montfort University, UK), Aulikki Hyrskykari (University of Tampere, Finland), Stephen Vickers (De Montfort University, UK)

10:30am break

11:00am - 12:30pm Paper Session 5: Prediction, Bias, Estimation
Session chair: Jeffrey B. Mulligan

Eye Movement Prediction by Kalman Filter with Integrated Linear Horizontal Oculomotor Plant Mechanical Model
Oleg V. Komogortsev^† (Texas State University, USA) and Javed I. Khan (Kent State University, USA)

Analysis of Subject-Dependent Point-of-Gaze Estimation Bias in the Cross-Ratios Method
Elias Guestrin^†, Moshe Eizenman, Jeff Kang, and Erez Eizenman (University of Toronto, Canada)

Remote Gaze Estimation with a Single Camera Based on Facial-Feature Tracking without Special Calibration Actions
Hirotake Yamazoe^†, Akira Utsumi, Tomoko Yonezawa, and Shinji Abe (ATR IRC Labs, Japan)

12:30pm lunch

2:00pm - 3:30pm Paper Session 6: Calibration
Session chair: Minoru Nakayama

A Software Framework for Simulating Eye Trackers
Martin Böhme^†, Michael Dorr, Mathis Graw, Thomas Martinetz, and Erhardt Barth (University of Lübeck, Germany)

Taxonomic Study of Polynomial Regressions Applied to the Calibration of Video-Oculographic Systems
Juan J. Cerrolaza^†, Arantxa Villanueva, and Rafael Cabeza (Public University of Navarra, Spain)

Remote Point-of-Gaze Estimation Requiring a Single-Point Calibration for Applications with Infants
Elias Guestrin^† and Moshe Eizenman (University of Toronto, Canada)

3:30pm break

4:00pm - 5:30pm Special Session 2: Town Hall & Closing Remarks

Anyone interested in participating in the organization of the next symposium is invited to attend!
Proposed Agenda:

Conference leadership (conference and program chairs are needed)
Where to hold the next meeting?

9:00am - 10:30am	Special Session 1: Opening Remarks & Keynote Address
	Opening Remarks Carlos H. Morimoto
	Keynote: On the Ease and Efficiency of Human Computer Interfaces Shumin Zhai (IBM Almaden, USA)
10:30am	break

11:00am - 12:30pm	Paper Session 1: Eye Typing Session chair: Päivi Majaranta
	Longitudinal Evaluation of Discrete Consecutive Gaze Gestures for Text Entry Jacob O. Wobbrock (University of Washington), James Rubinstein, Michael W. Sawyer^†, and Andrew T. Duchowski (Clemson University, USA)
	Now Dasher! Dash Away! Longitudinal Study of Fast Text Entry by Eye Gaze Outi Tuisku^†, Päivi Majaranta, Poika Isokoski, and Kari-Jouko Räihä (University of Tampere, Finland)
	Eye-S: a Full-Screen Input Modality for Pure Eye-based Communication Marco Porta^† and Matteo Turina (University of Pavia, Italy)
12:30pm	lunch

2:00pm - 3:30pm	Late Breaking Results: Oral Presentations Session chair: Aulikki Hyrskykari
	Measurement of Eye Velocity Using Active Illumination Jeffrey B. Mulligan (NASA Ames Research Center, USA)
	A Method to Study Visual Attention Aspects of Collaboration: Eye-Tracking Pair Programmers Simultaneously Sami Pietinen, Roman Bednarik, Tatiana Glotova, Vesa Tenhunen, and Markku Tukiainen (University of Joensuu, Finland)
	Testing for Statistically Significant Differences Between Groups of Scan Patterns Matt Feusner (University of California, San Francisco, USA) and Brian Lukoff (Stanford University, USA)
	Improving Hands-free Menu Selection Using Eyegaze Glances and Fixations Geoffrey Tien and M. Stella Atkins (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
	Gazing with pEYEs Anke Huckauf and Mario H. Urbina (Bauhaus-Universitaet Weimar, Weimar, Germany)
	Eye Typing Using Word and Letter Prediction and a Fixation Algorithm I. Scott MacKenzie and Xuan Zhang (York University, Canada)
3:30pm	break
4:00pm - 5:30pm	Late Breaking Results: Poster Presentations
	3D Point-of-Gaze Estimation on a Volumetric Display Craig Hennessey and Peter Lawrence (University of British Columbia, Canada)
	Limbus/Pupil Switching for Wearable Eye Tracking Under Variable Lighting Conditions Wayne J. Ryan, Andrew T. Duchowski, and Stan T. Birchfield (Clemson University, USA)
	Improving the Accuracy of Gaze Input for Interaction Manu Kumar (GazeWorks, Inc.), Jeff Klingner, Rohan Puranik, Terry Winograd, and Andreas Paepcke (Stanford University, USA)
	Measuring the Task-Evoked Pupillary Response with a Remote Eye Tracker Jeff Klingner, Rakshit Kumar, and Pat Hanrahan (Stanford University, USA)
	Estimation of Certainty for Multiple Choice Tasks Using Features of Eye-movements Minoru Nakayama and Yoshiyuki Takahasi (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
	Assessing Usability with Eye-Movement Frequency Analysis Minoru Nakayama and Makoto Katsukura (CRADLE, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
	Integrated Speech and Gaze Control for Realistic Desktop Environments Emiliano Castellina, Fulvio Corno, and Paolo Pellegrino (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
	Comparing Behavioural and Self-Report Measures of Engagement with an Embodied Conversational Agent: A first report on Eye Tracking in Second Life Sara Dalzel-Job, Craig Nicol, and Jon Oberlander (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)
	A Head-Mounted Sensor-based Eye Tracking Device: Eye Touch System Cihan Topal, Omer Nezih Gerek, and Atakan Dogan (Anadolu University, Turkey)
	Evaluating Requirements for Gaze-Based Interaction in a See-through Head Mounted Display Sven-Thomas Graupner, Michael Heubner, Sebastian Pannasch, and Boris M. Velichkovsky (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)
	One-point Calibration Gaze Tracking Based on Eyeball Kinematics Using Stereo Cameras Takashi Nagamatsu, Junzo Kamahara, Takumi Iko, and Naoki Tanaka (Kobe University, Japan)
	Temporal Eye-Tracking Data: Evolution of Debugging Strategies with Multiple Representations Roman Bednarik and Markku Tukiainen (University of Joensuu, Finland)
	EyeSecret: An Inexpensive but High Performance Auto-Calibration Eye Tracker Zhang Yun, Zhao Xin-Bo, Zhao Rong-Chun, Zhou Yuan, and Zou Xiao-Chun (Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xian, Shaanxi, China)
	KiEV: A Tool for Visualization of Reading and Writing Processes in Translation of Text Oleg Spakov and Kari-Jouko Räihä (University of Tampere, Finland)
	The Incomplete Fixation Measure Frederick Shic, Katarzyna Chawarska, and Brian Scassellati (Yale University, USA)
	Voluntary Pupil Size Change as Control in Eyes Only Interaction Inger Ekman, Antti Poikola, Meeri Mäkäräinen, Tapio Takala (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland) and Perttu Hämäläinen (Virtual Air Guitar Company, Finland)
	Contact-analog Information Representation in an Automotive Head-Up Display T. Poitschke, M. Ablassmeier, and G. Rigoll (Technical University of Munich, Germany), S. Bardins, S. Kohlbecher, E. Schneider, and T. Brandt (Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany)
	Effects of Time Pressure and Text Complexity on Translator’s Fixations Selina Sharmin, Oleg Spakov, and Kari-Jouko-Räihä (University of Tampere, Finland), Arnt Lykke Jakobsen (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark)
	Real-Time Simulation of Visual Defects with Gaze-Contingent Display Margarita Vinnikov, Robert S. Allison, and Dominik Swierad (York University, Canada)
	Comparison of Eye Movements in Searching for Easy-to-Find and Hard-to-Find Information in a Hierarchically Organized Information Structure Yoshiko Habuchi, Muneo Kitajima, and Haruhiko Takeuchi (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan)
	Calibration-free Eye Tracking by Reconstruction of the Pupil Ellipse in 3D Space Stefan Kohlbecher, Stanislavs Bardins, and Klaus Bartl (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany), Tony Poitschke and Markus Ablassmeier (Technical University Munich, Germany), Erich Schneider (Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany)
	Spatialchromatic Foveation for Gaze Contingent Displays Sheng Liu and Hong Hua (University of Arizona, USA)
	Using Semantic Content as Cues for Better Scanpath Prediction Moran Cerf, E. Paxon Frady, and Christof Koch (California Institute of Technology, USA)
	Eye2i: Coordinated Multiple Views for Gaze Data Harri Rantala (University of Tampere, Finland)
	GInX - Gaze Based Interface Extensions Thiago Schumacher Barcelos and Carlos Hitoshi Morimoto (University of São Paulo, Brazil)
	An Online Noise Filter for Eye-Tracker Data Recorded in a Virtual Environment Sylvain Chartier (University of Ottawa, Canada) and Patrice Renaud (Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada)

8:45am	Exhibits Open
9:00am - 10:30am	Paper Session 2: Looking at Faces, Chess Boards, and Maps Session chair: Moshe Eizenman
	Cross-race Recognition Deficit and Visual Attention: Do They All Look (at Faces) Alike? Sheree Josephson^† (Weber State University, USA) and Michael E. Holmes (Ball State University, USA)
	The Visual Span of Chess Players Pieter Blignaut, Tanya Beelders^†, and Andy So^† (University of the Free State, South Africa)
	Deixis and Gaze in Collaborative Work at a Distance (over a shared map): a Computational Model to Detect Misunderstandings Mauro Cherubini^†, Marc-Antoine Nüssli, and Pierre Dillenbourg (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland)
10:30am	break (in exhibits hall)

11:00am - 12:30pm	Paper Session 3: Advances in Eye Tracking Technology Session chair: Elias Guestrin
	3D Point-of-Regard, Position and Head Orientation from a Portable Monocular Video-Based Eye Tracker Susan Kolakowski-Munn^† and Jeff B. Pelz (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)
	A Robust 3D Eye Gaze Tracking System using Noise Reduction Jixu Chen^†, Yan Tong, Wayne Gray, and Qiang Ji (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)
	A New Wireless Search-Coil System Mark Shelhamer, Dale Roberts^†, and Aaron Wong (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
12:30pm	lunch

9:00am - 10:30am	Paper Session 4: Gaze Interfaces Session chair: Mauro Cherubini
	Noise Tolerant Selection by Gaze-Controlled Pan and Zoom in 3D Dan Witzner Hansen^† (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark), John Paulin Hansen, Henrik Skovsgaard Jensen (IT University, Denmark), and Emilie Møllenback (Loughborough University, UK)
	Looking my Way through the Menu: The Impact of Menu Design and Multimodal Input on Gaze-based Menu Selection Yvonne Kammerer^† (Knowledge Media Research Center, Tuebingen Germany), Katharina Scheiter (University of Tuebingen, Germany), Wolfgang Beinhauer (Fraunhofer Insitute for Industrial Engineering, Germany)
	Snap Clutch, a Moded Approach to Solving the Midas Touch Problem Howell Istance^† and Richard Bates (De Montfort University, UK), Aulikki Hyrskykari (University of Tampere, Finland), Stephen Vickers (De Montfort University, UK)
10:30am	break

11:00am - 12:30pm	Paper Session 5: Prediction, Bias, Estimation Session chair: Jeffrey B. Mulligan
	Eye Movement Prediction by Kalman Filter with Integrated Linear Horizontal Oculomotor Plant Mechanical Model Oleg V. Komogortsev^† (Texas State University, USA) and Javed I. Khan (Kent State University, USA)
	Analysis of Subject-Dependent Point-of-Gaze Estimation Bias in the Cross-Ratios Method Elias Guestrin^†, Moshe Eizenman, Jeff Kang, and Erez Eizenman (University of Toronto, Canada)
	Remote Gaze Estimation with a Single Camera Based on Facial-Feature Tracking without Special Calibration Actions Hirotake Yamazoe^†, Akira Utsumi, Tomoko Yonezawa, and Shinji Abe (ATR IRC Labs, Japan)
12:30pm	lunch

2:00pm - 3:30pm	Paper Session 6: Calibration Session chair: Minoru Nakayama
	A Software Framework for Simulating Eye Trackers Martin Böhme^†, Michael Dorr, Mathis Graw, Thomas Martinetz, and Erhardt Barth (University of Lübeck, Germany)
	Taxonomic Study of Polynomial Regressions Applied to the Calibration of Video-Oculographic Systems Juan J. Cerrolaza^†, Arantxa Villanueva, and Rafael Cabeza (Public University of Navarra, Spain)
	Remote Point-of-Gaze Estimation Requiring a Single-Point Calibration for Applications with Infants Elias Guestrin^† and Moshe Eizenman (University of Toronto, Canada)
3:30pm	break

4:00pm - 5:30pm	Special Session 2: Town Hall & Closing Remarks
	Anyone interested in participating in the organization of the next symposium is invited to attend! Proposed Agenda: Conference leadership (conference and program chairs are needed) Where to hold the next meeting?