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Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the you-looking-at-me? dept.

cottonbuds writes "Researchers at Human Media Lab, Queen's University in Canada presented the ECSGlasses: eye contact sensing glasses that report when people look at their wearer. When eye contact is detected, the glasses stream this information to appliances to inform these about the wearer's engagement. According to HML.Blog the ECSGlasses uses a wearable, wireless Eye-Contact Sensor (1.3MB .jpg) to gauge when the user receives eye-contact from an onlooker. eyeBlog uses this information to record and publish face-2-face conversations without dividing the user's attention between the event being recorded, and the device being used to record it. Moreover, because eyeBlog uses eye-contact to start and stop recording, users do not need to sift through hours of footage to find interesting segments. If you are the academic type you can read the paper (2.2MB .pdf), otherwise the video in .mpg (1:49min, 320x240, 7.5MB), or mp4 (1:49min, 320x240, 4.9MB) should explain everything. Video Mirror: .mp4 .mpg."

6 of 142 comments (clear)

  1. why bother by CaptnMArk · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I am often able to sense eye contact without any sensors at all. Anyone else?

    1. Re:why bother by Johnathon_Dough · · Score: 4, Insightful
      I am often able to sense eye contact without any sensors at all.

      Yeah me too.

      However...
      What I can't do is record a long series of video and remember the time stamp of when eye contact was made.
      Oh, I also can't make an appliance turn on or perform a specific task by looking at it.

      But yeah, I can tell if someone is looking at me.

      --
      If you are one in a million, then there are six thousand people who are just like you.
  2. Good, but.. by jayminer · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Very interesting behavior, but social and ethical rules may not be tolerable to such device.

  3. Eye contact? by Gary+Destruction · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How does it determine eye contact? Someone could appear to be looking at you. But in reality, you could easily be in their line of sight. It doesn't necessarily mean they're looking at you, let alone making eye contact.

  4. Focus-follows-sight by domQ · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Can't wait for these googles to be plugged into my window manager!

  5. Who wants to look at eyes? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How about taking a photo every time you're transfixed on an amazing chest or bottom? That's a blog a lot more people would appreciate :)