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Does This Headline Know You're Reading It?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the eyes-up-here-bub dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Not yet, but it could. German artificial intelligence researchers are combining JavaScript with eye-tracking hardware to create 'text 2.0,' which 'infers user intentions.' Unimportant words also fade out while you're skimming the text, and a bookmark automatically appears if you glance away. It can pronounce the words you're reading, and reading certain words can trigger the appearance of footnotes or even translations, biographies, definitions, and sound effects or animations, almost like the truly interactive books in Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age. 'With the help of an eye tracker, Text 2.0 follows your progress and presents effects just in time,' the researchers explain in a video. Meanwhile, DFKI has already created a free 'Processing Easy Eye Tracker plugin' (or PEEP) to manipulate windows with what they call 'gaze-controlled tab expose,' while there's speculation similar technology may be adopted by Apple. Apple has already purchased Tobii's eye-tracking hardware, and 'Whether these are for internal research only or for a future product, Apple is characteristically not saying.'"

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  1. Duct tape by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    /problem

    1. Re:Duct tape by OzPeter · · Score: 2, Funny

      /problem

      I think your right on this, but we may need to crowd source the job of finding these German researchers in order to apply the Duct Tape so they don't ever do this sort of research again.

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  2. It can only work if everyone has a webcam by Attila+Dimedici · · Score: 3, Funny

    This only works if everyone has a webcam that is sending feedback to the website. I can see how everybody on slashdot would like that.

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  3. Re:This will do wonders ... by DIplomatic · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hopefully it will fade out the irrelevant parts of the porn that I'm not paying attention to. This could make my jerking off twice as productive! (/sarcasm)

  4. Re:Nothing "2.0" by Shin-LaC · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's just you. The rest of us won't use it because it's a bad idea.

  5. Text 2.0? by rugatero · · Score: 2, Funny

    Text has been around for over 7000 years, and we're only now approaching version 2.0? And people thought Debian had a long release cycle...

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  6. Re:Do companies pay attention to details by 517714 · · Score: 2, Funny

    These lab tests always seem to fail in the real world.

    Until they succeed.

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  7. Oh, no by physburn · · Score: 4, Funny
    onLookAway(
    popUp( "you looked away from this messages; please look back");
    playSound("annoyingBleep.mid");
    setPicture("porno_woman.jpg");
    );

    onLookAt( popUp(" Please click the link");
    playSound("click+click+click.mid");
    setPicture("Advert.jpg");
    );

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