CIS 410/510 Eye Tracking Methodology and Applications
Class Schedule as of 5/21/10

Prof. Anthony Hornof, Spring 2010

The schedule is designed so that the topics, reading assignments, in-class lectures, discussions, and various phases of the projects should all complement each other and provide a synergistic learning experience. This schedule will evolve during the term to reflect opportunities that arise for a customized learning experience. The schedule will evolve. Unless specified, all readings are from the course textbook (Duchowski, 2007). Previous schedule: 1

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Date
Topics, Reading, and Assignments
1 Tue,
Mar 30
  • Introduce the course, the topics, and ourselves. Take photos of students.
1 Thu,
Apr 1
  • Topic: Exciting and interesting applications for eye tracking.
  • Read: Class Syllabus. Textbook Prefaces, and Chapters 21 and 20.
  • In class: Discuss the reading. Visit the eye tracking studio.
  Tue,
Apr 6
  • Topic: Background on eye tracking studies and applications, to help generate ideas for projects, with an emphasis on psychological and human factors studies.
  • Read: Textbook Chapter 16, Sections 17.4 - 17.9, and Chapter 18.
2 Thu,
Apr 8
  • Topic: Start getting familiar and comfortable with the technology.
  • Read: (1) The user's manual for the system that you expect to use (LC Communication System or Tobii T60) and (2) the manual for the development environment that you are most likely to use (E-Prime Extensions for Tobii for a psychology experiment, EyeMusic for Max/MSP, EyeMouse for Flash, The Grid and/or VS Communicator for a communication project).
  • Passwords were sent to students' @uoregon.edu email addresses.
  • In class: In the eye tracking studio, watch a demo, take notes, and try out the eye tracker in the lab.
  • Due: Initial project proposals.
  • (Also: Schedule makeup classes.)
3 Tue,
Apr 13
  • No class today due to attending the CHI 2010 conference.
3 Thu,
Apr 15
  • No class today due to attending the CHI 2010 conference.
  • When this class is made up, the topic will be eye tracking for new media art.
4 Tue,
Apr 20
  • Topic: Eye tracking for assistive technology.
  • Read: Donegan et al. (2009) "Understanding users and their needs." Universal Access in the Information Society 8:259-275.
4 Thu,
Apr 22
  • Topic: Experimental design. Different kinds of studies or inquiries that can be conducted. How to design an eye tracking study to answer a specific scientific question.
  • Read: Chapters 13 and 14. Possibly additional readings to be determined, from assistive technology or new media art.
  • Due: Final project proposals.
5 Tue,
Apr 27
  • Topic: Experimental design. Discuss and explore ideas for eye tracking studies or projects.
  • Read: Two papers related to your project idea.
  • Assignment: Write one two-paged double-spaced papers about each of the two articles that you read (two papers) and prepare a brief informal presentation (just stand up and discuss, or Powerpoint if you really want) presenting those papers.
5 Thu,
Apr 29
  • Topic: Experimental design. Discuss and explore ideas for eye tracking studies or projects.
  • Reading: Chapter 15, case studies of eye tracking projects; possible also a paper on assistive technology or new media art.
  • Assignment: Midterm handed out.
6 Tue,
May 4
  • Topic: The fundamentals of human visual attention perception and the neural substrate associated with the human visual system.
  • Read: Chapters 1 and 2 (though Ch. 1 is more important).
  • Assignment: Midterm due.
6 Thu,
May 6
  • Topic: Experimental Design.
  • Reading: Burke et al. (2005).
7 Thu,
May 11
  • Topic: More fundamental characteristics of human vision, especially eye movements..
  • Read: Chapters 3 and 4 (though Ch. 4 is more important).
  • Assignment due: Project preproposals submitted and presented. This will include a literature review and submission of three related articles that you read.
  • Assignment: Students will demonstrate their ability to set up and use the eye tracker and the software that they intend to use for their project.
7 Thu,
May 13
  • Topic: Project-based eye tracking research and application development.
  • In class: Collaborate in the eye tracking design studio.
8 Tue,
May 18
  • Topic: Further development of project ideas.
  • Topic: Experimental design. Different kinds of studies or inquiries that can be conducted. How to design an eye tracking study to answer a specific scientific question. Also: Fixation detection.
  • Read: Chapters 12 (pp.137-144), 13 and 14.
8 Thu,
May 20
  • Topic: Project-based eye tracking research and application development.
  • In class: Collaborate in the eye tracking design studio.
9 Tue,
May 25
  • Topic: Using eye tracking to answer specific questions about non-eye-tracking-related phenomenon.
  • Reading:
  • Guan, Z., Lee, S., Cuddihy, E., and Ramey, J. (2006). The validity of the stimulated retrospective think-aloud method as measured by eye tracking. In Proceedings of CHI '06, the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
  • Due: Article summary of this paper.
9 Thu,
May 27
  • Projects due.
10 Tue,
Jun 1
  • Topic: Contemporary topics in eye tracking.
  • Reading: To be determined.
10 Thu,
Jun 3
  • Topic: Exciting and interesting new discoveries and applications for eye tracking.
  • In class: Students present final projects.