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COGAIN 2006 Program

Monday, 4 September, 2006

Politecnico di Torino - Sede "Lingotto"
Aula Magna
via Nizza 230
10126 Torino


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8:30-9:00 Registration

9:00-10:30

Session: Eye-tracking Systems

Chair: Martin Böhme

Remote Eye Tracking: State of the Art and Directions for Future Development
Martin Böhme, André Meyer, Thomas Martinetz, Erhardt Barth
Institute for Neuro- and Bioinformatics, Germany

Open-Source Software for Real-Time Visible-Spectrum Eye Tracking
Dongheng Li, Derrick Parkhurst
The Virtual Reality Application Center, Iowa State University, USA

Progress on an Eye Tracking System Using Multiple Near-Infrared Emitter/Detector Pairs with Special Application to Efficient Eye-Gaze Communication
Dale Grover
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Michigan State University, USA

Basics of Gaze Estimation
Arantxa Villanueva1, Dan Witzner Hansen2, Javier San Agustin2, Rafael Cabeza2
1Public University of Navarra, Spain; 2IT University, Copenhagen, Denmark

GoldenGaze: an inexpensive realtime gaze tracking system
Detlev Droege, Fabian Fritzer, Dietrich Paulus
Institute for Computational Visualistics, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:30

Session: Multimodal Interaction with Real-World Objects

Chair: Alastair Gale

Control Application for Smart Houses through Gaze interaction
Dario Bonino, Emiliano Castellina, Fulvio Corno, Alessandro Garbo
Politecnico di Torino, Dipartimento di Automatica ed Informatica, Italy

Direct Gaze-Based Environmental Controls
Fangmin Shi, Alastair Gale, Kevin Purdy
Applied Vision Research Centre, Loughborough University, UK

Gaze Pointing and Facial EMG clicking
John Paulin Hansen
IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark

When can eyes make up for hands?
Marcela Fejtová, Petr Novák, Olga Štepánková
Czech Technical University, Department of Cybernetics, Czech Republic

Multi-modal interface: Gaze-EEG-based system
Carmen Vidaurre1, Arantxa Villanueva1, Reinhold Scherer2, Markus Joos3, Alois Schloegl2, Sebastian Pannasch3, Rafael Cabeza1
1Public University of Navarra, Spain; 2Graz University of Technology, Austria; 3Technische Universität Dresden, Germany

12:30-14:00 Lunch
(offered to registered participants)

14:00-15:30

Session: Attentive Interfaces and Reacting to Intent

Chair: John Paulin Hansen

Gaze-based Attentive User Interfaces (AUIs) to support disabled users: towards a research agenda
Howell Istance1, Aulikki Hyrskykari2, Daniel Koskinen2, Richard Bates1
1De Montfort University, UK; 2University of Tampere, Finland

Automatic Preference Detection by Analyzing the Gaze 'Cascade Effect'
Nikolaus Bee1, Helmut Prendinger2, Elisabeth André1, Mitsuru Ishizuka3
1University of Augsburg, Germany; 2National Institute of Informatics, Japan; 3The University of Tokyo, Japan

An Estimation of Certainty for Multiple Choice Responses using Eye-movement
Minoru Nakayama, Yosiyuki Takahasi
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Gaze tracking for robotic control in intelligent teleoperation and prosthetics
Claudio Castellini, Giulio Sandini
University of Genova, Italy

Eye Tracker Input in First Person Shooter Games
Poika Isokoski1,2, Benoît Martin2
1University of Tampere, Finland; 2University Paul Verlaine - Metz, France

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-17:30

Session: Users and Usability

Chair: Mick Donegan

The 'KEE' Concept for Eye-Control and Complex Disabilities: Knowledge-based, Enduser-focused and Evolutionary
Mick Donegan, Lisa Oosthuizen
The ACE Centre, UK

Gaze Path Playback Supporting Retrospective Think-Aloud in Usability Tests
Merja Lehtinen, Aulikki Hyrskykari, Kari-Jouko Räihä
University of Tampere, Finland

Recent experiences, using eye-controlled communication systems with "locked-in" patients
Jeffrey D. Morris, Gavin Cooper
Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust, Rookwood Hospital, UK

Towards Remote Evaluation of Gaze Typing Systems
John Paulin Hansen1, Kenji Itoh2, Hirotaka Aoki1,2
1University of Copenhagen, Denmark; 2Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Magic Key
Luis Filipe Figueiredo1, Ana Isabel Gomes2, João Bento Raimundo3
1Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão, Portugal; 2Agrupamento de Escolas de Penalva do Castelo, Portugal; 3Associação Augusto Gil, Portugal

Tuesday, 5 September, 2006

Città di Torino
Servizio Passepartout
via San Marino, 10
10134 Torino

program Tuesday Program in English and in Italian (PDF)

8:30-9:00 Registration
9:00 Welcome from the Rector of Politecnico di Torino, from Città di Torino and from Regione Piemonte
9:30 Opening from Kari-Jouko Räihä, coordinator of the COGAIN Network of Excellence
9:40 When Less is More: Applying Attention to the Design of Context-Aware Computers,
Roel Vertegaal – Queen´s University's School of Computing, Canada
Keynote Abstract
10:25 Technology and Disability: Industry and Research in Piemonte,
Raffaele Meo – Politecnico di Torino, Italy
10:40 Coffee Break
11:25 Living with Eyegaze,
Angela Jansen – actress and author, Germany
11:50 Eye Control helping People with a Disability in Torino,
Adriano Chiò – ALS Centre of Molinette Hospital in Torino, Italy
12:10 Who can Benefit from Eye Control and how?,
Michael Donegan – ACE Centre Advisory Trust, UK
12:30 Gaze Interactive Communication,
John Paulin Hansen – IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
12:50 Concluding Remarks
13:00-14:30 Lunch
(offered to registered participants)
14:30-18:00 Exhibition
Users and Industry
(+ a coffee break)



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