They already use a similar mechanism to the one you describe to measure the area value ($) of advertising on a web page. So, in the same way that greater value is place on advertising space on the leading page of a newspaper spread (opening right to left the leading page is the right page), advertisers would be able to place greater value on a said area of a web page.
I don't think it measures pixel for pixel or allows you to click, it just sences the region on the screen that you are looking at. It has a camera that focuses on your pupil and monitors its movement though. I suppose this could be refined to point and click device but it would need to get pretty precise if you wanted to use PhotoShop with it.... Although I can definitely see a practical application for this in the impaired movement community. I saw a boy in a wheelchair with one of those foot and a half log poles with the ball on the end for typing on a keyboard because he was unable to type conventionally. This probably wouldn't have helped him in particular but there must be people this tech could help. Dual arm amputees for instance. I don't know.
Anyway.... I was thinking about this exact same situation about 6 months ago, what would be a killer input device. I was thinking more along the keyboard direction though.
I was looking at my 17" PowerBook and then thinking about Steven Spielberg (or someone who has something to do with video editing etc) using it to edit video. Then I was thinking about these musicians and DJs that I heard about that do all their editing, mixing, recording etc on a Mac. Then I was thinking about the myriad of other applications the Mac has and I realised that the keyboard is a big fat waste of time and space.
What if you could replace the keyboard with a touchscreen. So, you're editing you movie in FCP and the "screenboard" (it would need a better name I think) shows a scrubbing wheel and play/pause/fast forward buttons, sound levels when a track with audio is selected etc etc etc. If you are entering titles it will revert to a traditional qwerty layout on the screen until you are back in editing mode. Then you want to work in SoundTrack so the screenboard changes to an audio mixing desk. If you are a beat mixing DJ, it shows the 2 tracks currently playing each on a turntable that you can scratch etc. If you are using PhotoShop it could have all of your pallettes on it to remove the desktop cluter, or it could be a drawing tablet.
The screen resolution wouldn't need to be that great and not even color. It would need a pretty kick ass touch screen though.... or you could lay it over a similar surface to the mouse on the PowerBook....Just have an elactrostatic field and measure the disturbances.... It would need to support multiple disturbances though in order to make it useful.
So, what do you think??
I don't know if this is economically feasible or even possible.... I just think that it's a not-bad-idea.
A copy of the app... almost certainly not, unfortunately. I don't own it, nor do I have copyright on it. UNC does. We plan on making it publicly available 'at some point'. You'd have to talk to the research lead for that one though - and he's cranky.
The mac is 20 years old and we (most of us anyways) are still using QWERTY keyboards and mice, despite their tendancy to cause carpel tunnel syndrome and their inefficiencies. What improvements could be made?
The "Do-What-I-Want-Not-What-I-Tell-You" interface is probably the next big thing ... no matter how dumb-ass your input might be, the systems Baysien analysis of your nonsense usually selects the right option ... you lazy-no-good-RTFM-mofo-you
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I don't think it measures pixel for pixel or allows you to click, it just sences the region on the screen that you are looking at. It has a camera that focuses on your pupil and monitors its movement though. I suppose this could be refined to point and click device but it would need to get pretty precise if you wanted to use PhotoShop with it.... Although I can definitely see a practical application for this in the impaired movement community. I saw a boy in a wheelchair with one of those foot and a half log poles with the ball on the end for typing on a keyboard because he was unable to type conventionally. This probably wouldn't have helped him in particular but there must be people this tech could help. Dual arm amputees for instance. I don't know.
Anyway.... I was thinking about this exact same situation about 6 months ago, what would be a killer input device. I was thinking more along the keyboard direction though.
I was looking at my 17" PowerBook and then thinking about Steven Spielberg (or someone who has something to do with video editing etc) using it to edit video. Then I was thinking about these musicians and DJs that I heard about that do all their editing, mixing, recording etc on a Mac. Then I was thinking about the myriad of other applications the Mac has and I realised that the keyboard is a big fat waste of time and space.
What if you could replace the keyboard with a touchscreen. So, you're editing you movie in FCP and the "screenboard" (it would need a better name I think) shows a scrubbing wheel and play/pause/fast forward buttons, sound levels when a track with audio is selected etc etc etc. If you are entering titles it will revert to a traditional qwerty layout on the screen until you are back in editing mode. Then you want to work in SoundTrack so the screenboard changes to an audio mixing desk. If you are a beat mixing DJ, it shows the 2 tracks currently playing each on a turntable that you can scratch etc. If you are using PhotoShop it could have all of your pallettes on it to remove the desktop cluter, or it could be a drawing tablet.
The screen resolution wouldn't need to be that great and not even color. It would need a pretty kick ass touch screen though.... or you could lay it over a similar surface to the mouse on the PowerBook....Just have an elactrostatic field and measure the disturbances.... It would need to support multiple disturbances though in order to make it useful.
So, what do you think??
I don't know if this is economically feasible or even possible.... I just think that it's a not-bad-idea.
http://rockfish-cs.cs.unc.edu/pubs/TR04-005.pdf
I've got to whip up a movie to provide a link to...
And yes, some Apple folks have seen it. (But we have the patent filing.
Originally posted by Kickaha
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http://rockfish-cs.cs.unc.edu/pubs/TR04-005.pdf
I've got to whip up a movie to provide a link to...
And yes, some Apple folks have seen it. (But we have the patent filing.
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Originally posted by Aphelion
Not a blink, but a wink. That way you would have a left wink and a right wink. Of course Steve would never approve of a dual wink input device.
Heh Heh
Ours runs the whole UI.
It will be great to walk up to your computer and use it like a kiosk and talk to it.
Can't help you with the voice recog much... other than to suggest a hefty investment in scripting triggered by the current speech recognition.
A copy of the app... almost certainly not, unfortunately. I don't own it, nor do I have copyright on it. UNC does. We plan on making it publicly available 'at some point'. You'd have to talk to the research lead for that one though - and he's cranky.
Originally posted by reynard
Firewire your brain to a computer--thats beyond ridiculous. You would need a fiber optic connection at least. ...
Actually, everything that is contained in a sole brain is trivial anyway, so what?
think different at least, well, at least ...
Originally posted by peteman
The mac is 20 years old and we (most of us anyways) are still using QWERTY keyboards and mice, despite their tendancy to cause carpel tunnel syndrome and their inefficiencies. What improvements could be made?
The "Do-What-I-Want-Not-What-I-Tell-You" interface is probably the next big thing ... no matter how dumb-ass your input might be, the systems Baysien analysis of your nonsense usually selects the right option ... you lazy-no-good-RTFM-mofo-you