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Humans live in, and interact with, a very complex and multi-sensory environment. Yet, one parcels efficiently the incoming information through attention mechanisms. Even if restricted to the visual sensory system alone, full understanding of one’s perception often implies a suitable identification of that person’s direction of gaze. There is a considerable amount of new and commercially available eye tracking devices. We investigate the use of a mobile phone to acquire precise information on the direction of gaze, in a controlled visual stimulation environment. The main advantages of the proposed new approach are its price, ease of use and ubiquitous availability. The results attained in this proof-of-concept study display fairly high accuracy and precision for the estimation of the direction of gaze.
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Vigário, R., Gamas, F., Morais, P., Quintão, C. (2019). Development of a Low-Cost Eye Tracker – A Proof of Concept. In: Nunes, I. (eds) Advances in Human Factors and Systems Interaction. AHFE 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 781. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94334-3_29
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