ETRA 2010: Eye Tracking Research & Applications Symposium 2010

Current Program 2010

Schedule for Sessions

Mon 22 March, 2010 Tue 23 March, 2010 Wed 24 March, 2010
09:00
 
Opening Session &
Keynote Address
Long Papers Session 2:
Scanpath Representation and
Comparison Methods
Long Papers Session 4:
Analysis and Understanding
of Visual Tasks
10:30 Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break
11:00
 
Long Papers Session 1:
Advances in Eye Tracking Technology
Long Papers Session 3:
Analysis and Interpretation
of Eye Movements
Long Papers Session 5:
Gaze Interfaces and Interactions
12:30 Lunch Lunch Lunch
02:00
 
Short Papers Session 1:
Eye Tracking Applications
and Data Analysis
Exhibition & Demonstrations Long Papers 6:
Eye Tracking and Accessibility
03:30 Coffee Break
& Posters
Coffee Break
Exhibition & Demonstrations
Coffee Break
04:00
 
Short Papers Session 2:
Poster Presentations
Short Papers Session 3:
Advances in Eye Tracking Technology
Exhibition & Demonstrations
Closing Session
05:30 End of Sessions
End of Sessions End of Sessions
Evening Free Texas Night Out
Reception at Maggie Maes
Free


Detailed Program

MONDAY, 22 March 2010

9:00 am Opening Session & Keynote Address
Opening Session

Howell Istance (De Montfort University, UK)

Keynote: An Eye on Input: Research Challenges in Using the Eye for Computer Input Control

Scott MacKenzie (York University, Canada)

10:30 am Coffee Break
11:00 am Long Papers Session 1: Advances in Eye Tracking Technology
Session chair: Jeffrey Mulligan

Homography Normalization for Robust Gaze Estimation in Uncalibrated Setups

Dan Witzner Hansen and Javier San Agustin (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark), and Arantxa Villanueva (Public University of Navarra, Spain)

Head-mounted Eye-tracking of Infants' Natural Interactions: a New Method

John Franchak, Kari Kretch, and Kasey Soska (New York University, USA), Jason Babcock (Positive Science, USA), Karen Adolph (New York University, USA)

User-Calibration-Free Remote Gaze Estimation System

Dmitri Model and Moshe Eizenman (University of Toronto, Canada)

12:30 pm Lunch
2:00 pm Short Papers Session 1: Eye Tracking Applications and Data Analysis
Session chair: Andrew Duchowski

Eye Movement as an Interaction Mechanism for Relevance Feedback in a Content-Based Image Retrieval System

Yun Zhang (Northwestern Polytechnic University, China), Hong Fu, Zhen Liang, Zheru Chi (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China), and Dagan Feng (University of Sydney, Australia)

Content-based Image Retrieval Using a Combination of Visual Features and Eye Tracking Data

Zhen Liang, Hong Fu, Yun Zhang, Zheru Chi (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China), and Dagan Feng (University of Sydney, Australia)

Gaze Scribing in Physics Problem Solving

David Rosengrant (Kennesaw State University, USA)

Have You Seen Any of These Men? Looking at Whether Eyewitnesses Use Scanpaths to Recognize Suspects in Photo Lineups

Sheree Josephson (Weber State University, USA) and Michael Holmes (Ball State University, USA)

Estimation of Viewer's Response for Contextual Understanding of Tasks of using Features of Eye-movements

Minoru Nakayama and Yuko Hayashi (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)

Biometric Identification via an Oculomotor Plant Mathematical Model

Oleg Komogortsev and Sampath Jayarathna (Texas State University, USA), Cecilia Aragon (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA), and Mahmoud Mechehoul (Texas State University, USA)

3:30 pm Coffee Break (Poster Presentations begins)
4:00 pm Short Papers Session 2: Poster Presentations
Saliency-Guided Decision Support

Roxanne Canosa (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)

Qualitative and Quantitative Scoring and Evaluation of the Eye Movement Classification Algorithms

Oleg Komogortsev, Sampath Jayarathna, Do Hyong Koh, and Sandeep Munikrishne Gowda (Texas State University, USA)

An Interactive Interface for Remote Administration of Clinical Tests Based on Eye Tracking

Alberto Faro, Daniela Giordano, Concetto Spampinato, Davide De Tommaso, and Simona Ullo (University of Catania, Italy)

Visual Attention for Implicit Relevance Feedback in a Content Based Image Retrieval

Alberto Faro, Daniela Giordano, Carmelo Pino, and Concetto Spampinato (University of Catania, Italy)

Evaluation of a Low-Cost Open-Source Gaze Tracker

Javier San Agustin and Henrik Skovsgaard (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark), Emilie Møllenbach (Loughborough University, UK), Maria Barrett, Martin Tall, Dan Witzner Hansen, and John Paulin Hansen (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

An Open Source Eye-gaze Interface: Expanding the Adoption of Eye-gaze in Everyday Applications

Craig Hennessey (Mirametrix, USA) and Andrew Duchowski (Clemson University, USA)

Investigating Important Visual Cues for Representative Creature Motion

Meredith McLendon, Ann McNamara, Tim McLaughlin, and Ravindra Dwivedi (Texas A&M University, USA)

Eye and Pointer Coordination in Search and Selection Tasks

Hans-Joachim Bieg, Lewis Chuang, and Roland Fleming (Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Germany), Harald Reiterer (University of Konstanz, Germany), and Heinrich Bülthoff (Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Germany)

Pies with EYEs: The Limits of Hierarchical Pie Menus in Gaze Control

Mario Urbina and Maike Lorenz (Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany), and Anke Huckauf (Ulm University, Germany)

Measuring Vergence Over Stereoscopic Video with a Remote Eye Tracker

Brian Daugherty, Andrew Duchowski, and Donald House (Clemson University, USA), and Celambarasan Ramasamy (Dreamworks Animation, USA)

Group-Wise Similarity and Classification of Aggregate Scanpaths

Thomas Grindinger, Andrew Duchowski, and Michael Sawyer (Clemson University, USA)

Inferring Object Relevance from Gaze in Dynamic Scenes

Melih Kandemir, Veli-Matti Saarinen, and Samuel Kaski (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland)

Advanced Gaze Visualizations for Three-dimensional Virtual Environments

Sophie Stellmach (Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Germany), Lennart Nacke (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden), and Raimund Dachselt (Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Germany)

The Use of Eye Tracking for PC Energy Management

Vasily Moshnyaga (Fukuoka University, Japan)

Low-Latency Combined Eye and Head Tracking System for Teleoperating a Robotic Head in Real-Time

Stefan Kohlbecher, Klaus Bartl, Stanislavs Bardins, and Erich Schneider (University of Munich Hospital, Germany)

Visual Search in the (Un)Real World: How Head-Mounted Displays Affect Eye Movements, Head Movements and Target Detection

Tobit Kollenberg, Alexander Neumann, Dorothe Schneider, Tessa-Karina Tews, Thomas Hermann, Helge Ritter, Angelika Dierker, and Hendrik Koesling (Bielefeld University, Germany)

Visual Span and Other Parameters for the Generation of Heatmaps

Pieter Blignaut (University of the Free State, South Africa)

Robust Optical Eye Detection During Head Movement

Jeffrey Mulligan (NASA Ames Research Center, USA) and Kevin Gabayan (Stanford University, USA)

What You See is Where You Go: Testing a Gaze-Driven Power Wheelchair for Individuals with Severe Multiple Disabilities

Erik Wästlund (University of Karlstad, Sweden), Kay Sponseller (Landstinget i Värmland, Sweden), and Ola Pettersson (Embint, Sweden)

A Depth Compensation Method for Cross-ratio Based Eye Tracking

Flavio Coutinho and Carlos H. Morimoto (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil)

Estimating Cognitive Load Using Remote Eye Tracking in a Driving Simulator

Oskar Palinko, Andrew Kun, Alexander Shyrokov (University of New Hampshire, USA), and Peter Heeman (Oregon Health & Science University, USA)

Small-Target Selection with Gaze Alone

Henrik Skovsgaard (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark), Julio Mateo and John Flach (Wright State University, USA), and John Paulin Hansen (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

Measuring Situation Awareness of Surgeons in Laparoscopic Training

Geoffrey Tien, Stella Atkins (Simon Fraser University, Canada), Bin Zheng (The University of British Columbia, Canada), and Colin Swindells (The University of Victoria, Canada)

Quantification of Aesthetic Viewing Using Eye-Tracking Technology: The Influence of Previous Training in Apparel Design

Juyeon Park (Colorado State University, USA), Marilyn DeLong (University of Minnesota, USA), and Emily Woods (Colorado State University, USA)

Estimating 3D Point-of-regard and Visualizing Gaze Trajectories under Natural Head Movements

Kentaro Takemura, Yuji Kohashi, Tsuyoshi Suenaga, Jun Takamatsu, and Tsukasa Ogasawara (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)

Natural Scene Statistics at Stereo Fixations

Yang Liu, Lawrence Cormack, and Alan Bovik (Unversity of Texas at Austin, USA)

Development of Eye-Tracking Pen Display Based on Stereo Bright Pupil Technique

Michiya Yamamoto (Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan), Takashi Nagamatsu (Kobe University, Japan), and Tomio Watanabe (Okayama Prefectural University, Japan)

Pupil Center Detection in Low Resolution Images

Detlev Droege and Dietrich Paulus (University of Koblenz, Germany)

Using Vision and Voice to Create a Multimodal Interface for Microsoft Word 2007

Tanya Beelders and Pieter Blignaut (University of the Free State, South Africa)

Single Gaze Gestures

Emilie Møllenbach (Loughborough University, UK), Martin Lillholm (Nordic BioScience Imaging, Denmark), Alastair Gale (Loughborough University, UK), and John Paulin Hansen (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

Learning Relevant Eye MovementFeature Spaces Across Users

Zakria Hussain (University College London, UK), Kitsuchart Pasupa (University of Southampton, UK), and John Shawe-Taylor (University College London, UK)

Towards Task-Independent Person Authentication Using Eye Movement Signals

Tomi Kinnunen, Filip Sedlak, and Roman Bednarik (University of Eastern Finland, Finland)

Gaze-based Web Search: The Impact of Interface Design on Search Result Selection

Yvonne Kammerer (Knowledge Media Research Center, Germany) and Wolfgang Beinhauer (Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering, Germany)

Eye Tracking with the Adaptive Optics Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscope

Scott Stevenson (University of Houston, USA), Austin Roorda (University of California - Berkeley, USA), and Girish Kumar (University of Houston, USA)

Listing's and Donders' Laws and the Estimation of the Point-of-Gaze

Elias Guestrin and Moshe Eizenman (University of Toronto, Canada)

6:00 pm End of Sessions
Free Evening

TUESDAY, 23 March 2010

9:00 am Long Papers Session 2: Scanpath Representation and Comparison Methods
Session chair: Oleg Komogortsev

Visual Scanpath Representation

Joseph Goldberg and Jonathan Helfman (Oracle, USA)

A Vector-based, Multidimensional Scanpath Similiarty Measure

Halszka Jarodzka (Knowledge Media Research Center, Germany), Kenneth Holmqvist, and Marcus Nyström (Lund University, Sweden)

Scanpath Comparison Revisited

Andrew Duchowski and Jason Driver (Clemson University, USA), Sheriff Jolaoso (UMBC, USA), Beverly Ramey, Ami Robbins (Winthrop University, USA), and William Tan (Syracuse University, USA)

10:30 am Coffee Break
11:00 am Long Papers Session 3: Analysis and Interpretation of Eye Movements
Session chair: Moshe Eizenman

Scanpath Clustering and Aggregation

Joseph Goldberg and Jonathan Helfman (Oracle, USA)

Match-Moving for Area-Based Analysis of Eye Movements in Natural Tasks

Wayne Ryan, Andrew Duchowski, Ellen Vincent, and Dina Battisto (Clemson University, USA)

Interpretatation of Geometric Shapes - An Eye Movement Study

Miquel Prats (The Open University, UK), Iestyn Jowers (University of Leeds, UK), Nieves Pedreira (University of A Coruña, Spain), Steve Garner (The Open University, UK), and Alison McKay (University of Leeds, UK)

12:30 pm Lunch
2:00 pm Exhibits (ends at 5:30 PM)
(opens at 8:45 AM for exhibitors' setup only)
3:30 pm Coffee Break
4:00 pm Short Papers Session 3: Advances in Eye Tracking Technology
Session chair: Minoru Nakayama

User-calibration-free Gaze Tracking with Estimation of the Horizontal Angles between the Visual and the Optical Axes of Both Eyes

Takashi Nagamatsu, Ryuichi Sugano, Yukina Iwamoto, Junzo Kamahara, and Naoki Tanaka (Kobe University, Japan)

Gaze Estimation Method based on an Aspherical Model of the Cornea: Surface of Revolution about the Optical Axis of the Eye

Takashi Nagamatsu, Yukina Iwamoto, Junzo Kamahara, Naoki Tanaka (Kobe University, Japan), and Michiya Yamamoto (Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan)

The Pupillometric Precision of a Remote Video Eye Tracker

Jeff Klingner (Stanford University, USA)

Contingency Evaluation of Gaze-Contingent Displays for Real-Time Visual Field Simulations

Margarita Vinnikov and Robert Allison (York University, Canada)

SemantiCode: Using Content Similarity and Database-driven Matching to Code Wearable Eyetracker Gaze Data

Daniel Pontillo, Thomas Kinsman, and Jeff Pelz (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)

Context Switching for Fast Key Selection in Text Entry Applications

Carlos H. Morimoto (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil) and Arnon Amir (IBM, USA)

5:30 pm End of Sessions and Exhibits
Texas Night Out at Maggie Maes

WEDNESDAY, 24 March 2010

9:00 am Long Papers Session 4: Analysis and Understanding of Visual Tasks
Session chair: Aga Bojko

Fixation-aligned Pupillary Response Averaging

Jeff Klingner (Stanford University, USA)

Understanding the Benefits of Gaze Enhanced Visual Search

Pernilla Qvarfordt, Jacob Biehl, Gene Golovchinksy, and Tony Dunnigan (FX Palo Alto Laboratory, USA)

Image Ranking with Implicit Feedback from Eye Movements

David Hardoon (Inst. for Infocomm Research, Singapore) and Kitsuchart Pasupa (University of Southampton, UK)

10:30 am Coffee Break
11:00 am Long Papers Session 5: Gaze Interfaces and Interactions
Session chair: John Paulin Hansen

How the Interface Design Influences Users' Spontaneous Trustworthiness Evaluations of Web Search Results: Comparing a List and a Grid Interface

Yvonne Kammerer and Peter Gerjets (Knowledge Media Research Center, Germany)

Space-Variant Spatio-Temporal Filtering of Video for Gaze Visualization and Perceptual Learning

Michael Dorr (University of Lübeck, Germany), Halszka Jarodzka (Knowledge Media Research Center, Germany), and Erhardt Barth (University of Lübeck, Germany)

Alternatives to Single Character Entry and Dwell Time Selection on Eye Typing

Mario Urbina (Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany) and Anke Huckauf (Ulm University, Germany)

12:30 pm Lunch
2:00 pm Long Papers Session 6: Eye Tracking and Accessibility
Session chair: Craig Hennessey

Designing Gaze Gestures for Gaming: an Investigation of Performance

Howell Istance (De Montfort University, UK), Aulikki Hyrskykari, Lauri Immonen Santtu Mansikkamaa (University of Tampere, Finland), and Stephen Vickers (De Montfrort University, UK)

ceCursor, a Contextual Eye Cursor for General Pointing in Windows Environments

Marco Porta, Alice Ravarelli, and Giovanni Spagnoli (University of Pavia, Italy)

BlinkWrite2: An Improved Text Entry Method Using Eye Blinks

Behrooz Ashtiani and Scott MacKenzie (York University, Canada)

3:30 pm Coffee Break
4:00 pm Closing Session
Anyone interested in participating in the organization of the next symposium is invited to attend!
5:30 pm End of Sessions
Free Evening

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