Tobii and Lenovo presented a laptop with a built-in eye tracker at CeBit last week. The eye tracker allows the user to control the laptop, for instance selecting files to open and selecting active window from an expose like view. Engadget have a video of a demonstration of the eye control on the laptop here. I wished I could get my hands on it for some testing. A laptop with a built-in eye tracker certainly has potential, from making eye tracking easier and more flexible for disabled and making usability testing using eye tracking more flexible allowing the usability specialist to move from their labs to the field.

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Reading images is a quite common task; radiologists looks at X-rays, airport screeners scan suitcases, and astronomers inspect images from telescopes. In many of these visual search tasks, the outcome is important. We don’t want the airport screens to miss a weapon, or the radiologist to miss any lesions. In a paper we presented at the recent Eye Tracking Research and Application Symposium (ETRA 2010), we looked into how information of where people have looked can be used to guide them to parts of images not yet examined.

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