I am a postgraduate student at Trinity College Dublin, currently working towards a MSc in Interactive Entertainment Technology.
For my dissertation, being supervised by Dr. Veronica Sundstedt, I intend to develop a computer game exploring novel functionalities of using eye tracking and voice recognition as an alternative means of video game interaction. Eye tracking is a process that records eye movements allowing us to the determine where an observer’s gaze is fixed at a given time.
Alternative means of interaction in computers are especially important for disabled users for which traditional techniques using mouse and keyboard may not be feasible. By combining voice recognition and eye tracking I hope to provide an alternative hands-free way of interacting with video games.
Jon Ward of Acuity ETS has very kindly lent us a Tobii T60 eye tracker for the duration of the project. The application/game developed is intended to run on the eye tracker and will be implemented using the Tobii SDK and Microsoft Speech SDK (to implement voice recognition).
It is hoped that the game will be controllable using eye tracking and voice recognition and also keyboard and mouse. This is so the two modes of interaction can be compared to one another in a small user study. The user study will attempt to measure quantifiably the accuracy and speed of using eye tracking and voice recognition as opposed to keyboard and mouse. It is also intended to gather more subjective information from participants, such as how enjoyable was the use of eye tracking as an input device.
I have been working on this project for the last month and a half or so, so in my next post I will provide a summary of the work completed thus far. From then on I intend to post my progress on a more regular basis.
Jon Ward of Acuity ETS has very kindly lent us a Tobii T60 eye tracker for the duration of the project. The application/game developed is intended to run on the eye tracker and will be implemented using the Tobii SDK and Microsoft Speech SDK (to implement voice recognition).
It is hoped that the game will be controllable using eye tracking and voice recognition and also keyboard and mouse. This is so the two modes of interaction can be compared to one another in a small user study. The user study will attempt to measure quantifiably the accuracy and speed of using eye tracking and voice recognition as opposed to keyboard and mouse. It is also intended to gather more subjective information from participants, such as how enjoyable was the use of eye tracking as an input device.
I have been working on this project for the last month and a half or so, so in my next post I will provide a summary of the work completed thus far. From then on I intend to post my progress on a more regular basis.
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