This year’s Eye Tracking Research and Applications Conference (ETRA2010) is held in Austin, Texas. This is the premier gathering event for eye tracking researchers worldwide. The very interesting keynote speech was given by Scott MacKenzie with focus on using the eye as a control device in human-computer interfaces. This was also the main topic of …
Monthly Archive: March 2010
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18
Marko Popovic Lecture at UNH
On the 25th of February Dr Marko Popovic gave a talk at UNH in the series of Graduate Seminar lectures of the ECE department (ECE900). The title of the lecture was: “Many Endeavors a Few Successes; an Ordinary Story of the 21st Century ‘Renaissance’ = Multidisciplinary Researcher”. This lecture was geared towards graduate students who …
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11
Project Natal for Xbox
This really looks like Wii on steroids! I have recently stumbled upon Microsoft’s Project Natal for Xbox. Their slogan is “You are the controller” which is really appropriate. The system uses full body motion, facial and speech recognition in order to improve the sensation while playing a video game. This means that no electro-mechanical controllers …