Culmann Award
Dr. Ioannis Giannopoulos received the ETH Zurich Culmann Award in 2017 for an outstanding doctoral thesis “Supporting Wayfinding Through Mobile Gaze-Based Interaction”.
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Jul 17
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An inverse-linear logistic model of the main sequence
Peter Kiefer and Ioannis Giannopoulos have contributed to an article titled “An inverse-linear logistic model of the main sequence” (Journal of Eye Movement Research, JEMR). It is now available online:
http://dx.doi.org/10.16910/jemr.10.3.4
Abstract. A model of the main sequence is proposed based on the logistic function. The model’s fit to the peak velocity-amplitude relation resembles an S curve, simulta- neously allowing control of the curve’s asymptotes at very small and very large amplitudes, as well as its slope over the mid amplitude range. The proposed inverse-linear logistic model is also able to express the linear relation of duration and amplitude. We demonstrate the utility and robustness of the model when fit to aggregate data at the small- and mid-amplitude ranges, namely when fitting microsaccades, saccades, and superposition of both. We are confident the model will suitably extend to the large-amplitude range of eye movements.
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May 17
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3rd ET4S Workshop: Call for Papers
We’re glad to announce the 3rd International Workshop on Eye Tracking for Spatial Research (ET4S), which will take place January 14, 2018 in Zurich.
The workshop aims to bring together researchers from different areas who have a common interest in using eye tracking for research questions related to spatial information. This is the 3rd edition of the workshop, after two successful ET4S workshops in Scarborough (2013) and Vienna (2014). This time the workshop will be co-located with the 14th International Conference on Location Based Services (LBS 2018).
The workshop will be opened with an invited talk given by Roman Bednarik, an adjunct professor at the School of Computing, University of Eastern Finland.
The Call for Papers is now available (Paper submission deadline: September 27, 2017).
ET4S 2018 is supported by Ergoneers.
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May 17
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Gaze-Informed Location Based Services
Our article “Gaze-Informed Location Based Services” has been accepted for publication by the International Journal of Geographical Information Science (IJGIS):
Anagnostopoulos, V.-A., Havlena, M., Kiefer, P., Giannopoulos, I., Schindler, K., and Raubal, M. (2017). Gaze-informed location based services. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 2017. (accepted), PDF
The article introduces the concept of location based services which take the user’s viewing direction into account. It reports on the implementation and evaluation of such gaze-informed location based service which has been developed as part of the LAMETTA project. This research has been performed in collaboration between the GeoGazeLab, Michal Havlena (Computer Vision Laboratory, ETH Zurich) and Konrad Schindler (Institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry, ETH Zurich).
Abstract
Location-Based Services (LBS) provide more useful, intelligent assistance to users by adapting to their geographic context. For some services that context goes beyond a location and includes further spatial parameters, such as the user’s orientation or field of view. Here, we introduce Gaze-Informed LBS (GAIN-LBS), a novel type of LBS that takes into account the user’s viewing direction. Such a system could, for instance, provide audio information about the specific building a tourist is looking at from a vantage point. To determine the viewing direction relative to the environment, we record the gaze direction
relative to the user’s head with a mobile eye tracker. Image data from the tracker’s forward-looking camera serve as input to determine the orientation of the head w.r.t. the surrounding scene, using computer vision methods that allow one to estimate the relative transformation between the camera and a known view of the scene in real-time and without the need for artificial markers or additional sensors. We focus on how to map the Point of Regard of a user to a reference system, for which the objects of interest are known in advance. In an experimental validation on three real city panoramas, we confirm that the approach can cope with head movements of varying speed, including fast rotations up to 63 deg/s. We further demonstrate the feasibility of GAIN-LBS for tourist assistance with a proof-of-concept experiment in which a tourist explores a city panorama, where the approach achieved a recall that reaches over 99%. Finally, a GAIN-LBS can provide objective and qualitative ways of examining the gaze of a user based on what the user is currently looking at.
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May 17
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SWISS Eye Tracking project @ Lufthansa Digital Aviation Forum 2017
This year together with our colleagues from SWISS International Air Lines Ltd., we were present at the Lufthansa Digital Aviation Forum 2017 in Frankfurt am Main to present our ongoing project. Visit: http://releasd.com/3583 and http://newsroom.lufthansagroup.com/de/themen/digital-aviation.html for further information on the Lufthansa Digital Aviation Forum 2017.
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Mar 17
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Short Paper accepted at AGILE conference
Fabian Göbel, Peter Kiefer and Martin Raubal (2017). FeaturEyeTrack: A Vector Tile-Based Eye Tracking Framework for Interactive Maps In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (AGILE 2017), Wageningen, The Netherlands. (accepted)
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Feb 17
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GeoGazeLab goes facebook
Now you can find us on facebook!
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Jan 17
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Special Issue Appearing: Spatial Cognition&Computation 17 (1-2)
A double Special Issue on “Eye Tracking for Spatial Research” in Spatial Cognition&Computation, guest-edited by Peter, Ioannis, Martin, and Andrew Duchowski, has appeared [URL].
Nineteen manuscripts were submitted to an open Call for Submissions, out of which seven were finally accepted after a rigorous review process.
The Special Issue commences with an overview article, authored by the Guest Editors: “Eye tracking for spatial research: Cognition, computation, challenges” [URL, PDF].
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Dec 16
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SWISS project presentation
On the 28th of November Martin Raubal, Peter Kiefer and David Rudi from the GeoGazeLab co-hosted a project presentation of the “Awareness in Aviation” project in collaboration with SWISS International Air Lines Ltd.
During that event the project and its goals was first presented to a wider audience consisting of guests from SWISS International Air Lines Ltd., Swiss Aviation Training, the Swiss Federal Office of Civil Aviation (BAZL) and journalists from different news journals. One of the journals was the “My SWISS” magazine, which recently published an article of the event.
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Nov 16
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Controllability matters: The user experience of adaptive maps
An article titled “Controllability matters: The user experience of adaptive maps” will appear in one of the next issues of the Geoinformatica journal. It is now available online:
Controllability matters: The user experience of adaptive maps
Abstract Adaptive map interfaces have the potential of increasing usability by providing more task dependent and personalized support. It is unclear, however, how map adaptation must be designed to avoid a loss of control, transparency, and predictability. This article investigates the user experience of adaptive map interfaces in the context of gaze-based activity recognition. In a Wizard of Oz experiment we study two adaptive map interfaces differing in the degree of controllability and compare them to a non-adaptive map interface. Adaptive interfaces were found to cause higher user experience and lower perceived cognitive workload than the non-adaptive interface. Among the adaptive interfaces, users clearly preferred the condition with higher controllability. Results from structured interviews reveal that participants dislike being interrupted in their spatial cognitive processes by a sudden adaptation of the map content. Our results suggest that adaptive map interfaces should provide their users with control at what time an adaptation will be performed.
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Article in Horizonte
The latest issue of the Horizonte magazine, published by the Swiss National Science Foundation, is reporting on our research.
Source: Horizonte 111, December 2016
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Nov 16
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INNOLEC Lecture
Martin Raubal was invited for the INNOLEC Lecture at the Department of Geography of the Masaryk University Brünn, Czech Republic.
The title of his talk is: Gaze-based assistance for wayfinders in the real world (slides as PDF, all our presentations).
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Sep 16
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GeoGazeLab at the Smarttention Workshop
GeoGazeLab was represented at the Smarttention Workshop at MobileHCI to raise awareness for visual attention in adaptive interfaces.
Thanks to the organizers for their great work. We had inspiring discussions about the future of mobile UIs.
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3rd Workshop on Ubiquitous Technologies for Augmenting the Human Mind (UbiComp 2016)
Abstract
The past years have seen a growing interest in augmenting human cognition – attention, engagement, memory, learning, etc – through ubiquitous technologies. With the ongoing research and development of near-constant capture devices, unlimited storage, and algorithms for processing and retrieving captured recordings, the resulting personal “lifelogs” have opened the door to a vast range of applications. In the third rendition of this workshop series, we focus on technologies and applications of capturing and integrating personal experiences into everyday use cases. With the question What constitutes a modern lifelog?, we would like to invite researchers, designers, and practitioners to envision and exchange ideas on how ubiquitous technologies and applications can help enhance human cognition in everyday life. For example, search requests may no longer purely retrieve information from online archives, but take into account personal experiences. In this one-day workshop, we would like to formulate visions and concrete application scenarios for making use of ubiquitous technologies in order to push personal data to an application layer where it is used to support and augment human cognition and the human mind.
Keynote by Dr. Lewis Chuang
Organizers: Andreas Dengel , Tilman Dingler , Ioannis Giannopoulos, Cathal Gurrin, Koichi Kise, Kai Kunze, Evangelos Niforatos
Website: http://recall-fet.eu/wahm16/
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Aug 16
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Full paper accepted at SUI 2016
David Rudi, Ioannis Giannopoulos, Peter Kiefer, Christian Peier, Martin Raubal (2016) Interacting with Maps on Optical Head-Mounted Displays. In Proceedings of the 4th ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI 2016). ACM, 2016
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Jul 16
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Paper accepted at PETMEI Workshop
Vasileios-Athanasios Anagnostopoulos and Peter Kiefer (2016). Towards gaze-based interaction with urban outdoor spaces. In 6th International Workshop on Eye Tracking and Mobile Eye-Based Interaction (PETMEI 2016), UbiComp’16 Adjunct, New York, NY, USA, ACM. accepted
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Short Paper accepted at Smarttention, Please! Workshop
Fabian Göbel, Ioannis Giannopoulos and Martin Raubal (2016). The Importance of Visual Attention for Adaptive Interfaces. In Proceedings of the Workshop Smarttention, Please! Intelligent Attention Management on Mobile Devices, in conjunction with MobileHCI 2016. ACM, New York, NY, USA (accepted)
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Jun 16
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GeoGazeLab at GEOSummit 2016
This year at GEOSummit, our group displayed a gaze-based Geo-Game. During the GEOSchool Day, pupils and adults could experience how it feels to control maps just by using their gaze.
– We had great fun changing the world in the blink of an eye.
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May 16
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Department Annual Report: Spatial Awareness
A research highlight on “Spatial Awareness in the cockpit” has been published in the annual report of the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering!
David Rudi, Peter Kiefer, and Martin Raubal. Spatial awareness in the cockpit. Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, ETH Zurich, Annual Report 2015, April 2016.
See also: Research on “Aviation Safety”
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May 16
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Full paper accepted at GIScience 2016
Peter Kiefer, Ioannis Giannopoulos, Andrew Duchowski, Martin Raubal (2016) Measuring cognitive load for map tasks through pupil diameter. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2016). Springer
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Apr 16
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ETIZ Meeting March 2016 – Impressions
The two talks on cognitive load given by Christoph Hölscher and Andrew Duchowski provided great insights that stimulated discussion at the Eye Tracking Interest Group Zurich (ETIZ), which was one of the most highly attended meetings.
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ETIZ Meeting March 2016
We are going to host the next meeting of the Eye Tracking Interest Group Zurich (ETIZ). Everyone using, or planning to use eye tracking in their research is cordially welcome!
Date, time: Wednesday, 23rd March 2016, 17:00-19:00
Place: ETH Zurich Hönggerberg, HIL G 22
Topic: Measuring Cognitive Load with Eye Tracking
Please sign up in the Doodle to allow us plan the coffee break: http://ethz.doodle.com/poll/6ti5qbqx23wvf53g (before 16 March)
17:00 – 17:05
Welcome
17:05 – 17:20
Cognitive Load: Introduction
Christoph Hölscher, Chair of Cognitive Science, ETH Zürich
17:20 – 17:45
Cognitive Load and Eye Tracking: Overview on Methods
Andrew Duchowski, School of Computing, Clemson University, S.C., USA
17:45 – 18:15
Break
with possibility to try out a mobile gaze-based interaction system
Vasilis Anagnostopoulos, LAMETTA project, Geoinformation Engineering ETH Zürich
18:15 – 18:45
Discussion: Cognitive Load
18:45 – 18:55
Discussion: Format of ETIZ meeting
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Mar 16
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Talk by Andrew Duchowski
Everyone interested in eye tracking research is invited to the following talk:
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Andrew Duchowski (Clemson University, SC, USA)
Title: Eye Movement Synthesis
Place: ETH Zurich Science City Hönggerberg, HIL D 53
Date, time: Tuesday, 5th April 2016, 5.00 pm
After the talk you are cordially invited to an apéro in room HIL D 55.2.
Abstract: In this talk I will go over the eye movement simulation project being conducted at Clemson (and partially at ETH Zürich). The goal is to generate gaze data ground truth with which to validate different filtering approaches as well as to produce realistic eye movement animations. The focus of the project is to develop a procedural (stochastic) model of microsaccadic jitter.
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Full paper accepted at ETRA 2016
Andrew T. Duchowski, Sophie Jörg, Tyler N. Allen, Ioannis Giannopoulos, Krzysztof Krejtz (2016). Eye Movement Synthesis. In Proceedings of the 2016 symposium on Eye tracking research & applications (ETRA ’16). ACM
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Full paper accepted at ETRA 2016
Verena Schnitzler, Ioannis Giannopoulos, Christoph Hölscher and Iva Barisic (2016). The Interplay of Pedestrian Navigation, Wayfinding Devices, and Environmental Features in Indoor Settings. In Proceedings of the 2016 symposium on Eye tracking research & applications (ETRA ’16). ACM
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Feb 16
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Fabian Göbel joins the team
Fabian Göbel has started as a PhD student in the IGAMaps project (Intention-Aware Gaze-Based Assistance on Maps).
Great to have you on board, Fabian!
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Winter School 2016: Summary
Our Winter School on “Eye Tracking – Experimental Design, Implementation, and Analysis” is over. We were able to attract 61 participants, 5 speakers, plus several sponsor representatives.
In one keynote (Anke Huckauf), three lecture parts and three hands-on sessions (I. Scott MacKenzie, Andrew Duchowski, Izabela Krejtz, and Krzysztof Krejtz) participants learned about the whole cycle of performing eye tracking experiments, starting from experimental design, over data collection and processing, to the statistical analysis.
The conference center on Monte Verità (Ascona, Switzerland) offered an at the same time productive and enjoyable atmosphere with high quality food and service.
Thanks to all who have made this possible, especially our speakers and Congresso Stefano Franscini!
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Research stay Andrew Duchowski
Andrew Duchowski, a professor of Computer Science at Clemson University, will have a research stay in our group during his sabbatical (January to April 2016). He is a noted research leader in the field of eye tracking, having produced a corpus of papers and a textbook related to eye tracking research, and delivered courses and seminars on the subject at international conferences.
He’ll be a speaker at our Winter School in Monte Verità in January, co-editing our Special Issue in Spatial Cognition and Computation, and collaborate in our ongoing projects.
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PhD graduation
Thank you all for the great teamwork over the last years and for the very cool hat you made for me!
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BSc/MSc topics for spring 2016
We offer topics for student theses on Bachelor and Master level:
Bachelor (PDF, German)
Master (PDF, English)
You may also propose your own topic related to eye tracking, wayfinding, or gaze-based interaction. Contact us for more information!
The full lists of all topics (including non-eye tracking topics) can be found on the main page of the Chair of Geoinformation Engineering.