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#1 11-10-05, 01:19 PM
ssripada
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BlueEyes and Its Applications
BlueEyes is the name of a human recognition venture initiated by IBM to allow pe
ople to interact with computers in a more natural manner. The technology aims to
enable devices to recognize and use natural input, such as facial expressions.
The initial developments of this project include scroll mice and other input dev
ices that sense the user's pulse, monitor his or her facial expressions, and the
movement of his or her eyelids.
I have prepared a 4-page handout on BlueEyes and Its Business Applications from
several cited sources.
BlueEyes and Its Applications
Animal survival depends on highly developed sensory abilities. Likewise, human c
ognition depends on highly developed abilities to perceive, integrate, and inter
pret visual, auditory, and touch information. Without a doubt, computers would b
e much more powerful if they had even a small fraction of the perceptual ability
 of animals or humans. Adding such perceptual abilities to computers would enabl
e computers and humans to work together more as partners. Toward this end, the B
lueEyes project aims at creating computational devices with the sort of perceptu
al abilities that people take for granted.
How can we make computers "see" and "feel"?
BlueEyes uses sensing technology to identify a user's actions and to extract key
information. This information is then analyzed to determine the user's physical
, emotional, or informational state, which in turn can be used to help make the
user more productive by performing expected actions or by providing expected inf
ormation. For example, a BlueEyes-enabled television could become active when th
e user makes eye contact, at which point the user could then tell the television
to "turn on".
Most of us hardly notice the surveillance cameras watching over the grocery stor
e or the bank. But lately those lenses have been looking for far more than shopl
ifters.
Applications:
1.Engineers at IBM's ffice:smarttags" Research Center in San Jose, CA, report th
at a number of large retailers have implemented surveillance systems that record
and interpret customer movements, using software from Almaden's BlueEyes resear
ch project. BlueEyes is developing ways for computers to anticipate users' wants
by gathering video data on eye movement and facial expression. Your gaze might
rest on a Web site heading, for example, and that would prompt your computer to
find similar links and to call them up in a new window. But the first practical
use for the research turns out to be snooping on shoppers.
BlueEyes software makes sense of what the cameras see to answer key questions fo
r retailers, including, How many shoppers ignored a promotion? How many stopped?
How long did they stay? Did their faces register boredom or delight? How many r
eached for the item and put it in their shopping carts? BlueEyes works by tracki
ng pupil, eyebrow and mouth movement. When monitoring pupils, the system uses a
camera and two infrared light sources placed inside the product display. One lig
ht source is aligned with the camera's focus; the other is slightly off axis. Wh
en the eye looks into the camera-aligned light, the pupil appears bright to the
sensor, and the software registers the customer's attention.this is way it captu
res the person's income and buying preferences. BlueEyes is actively been incorp
orated in some of the leading retail outlets.
2. Another application would be in the automobile industry. By simply touching a
computer input device such as a mouse, the computer system is designed to be ab
le to determine a person's emotional state. for cars, it could be useful to help
with critical decisions like:
"I know you want to get into the fast lane, but I'm afraid I can't do that.Your
too upset right now" and therefore assist in driving safely.
3. Current interfaces between computers and humans can present information vivid
ly, but have no sense of whether that information is ever viewed or understood.
In contrast, new real-time computer vision techniques for perceiving people allo
ws us to create "Face-responsive Displays" and "Perceptive Environments", which
can sense and respond to users that are viewing them. Using stereo-vision techni
ques, we are able to detect, track, and identify users robustly and in real time
. This information can make spoken language interface more robust, by selecting
the acoustic information from a visually-localized source. Environments can beco
me aware of how many people are present, what activity is occuring, and therefor
e what display or messaging modalities are most appropriate to use in the curren
t situation. The results of our research will allow the interface between comput
ers and human users to become more natural and intuitive.
4. We could see its use in video games where, it could give individual challenge
s to customers playing video games.Typically targeting commercial business.
The integration of children's toys, technologies and computers is enabling new p
lay experiences that were not commercially feasible until recently. The Intel Pl
ay QX3 Computer Microscope, the Me2Cam with Fun Fair, and the Computer Sound Mor
pher are commercially available smart toy products developed by the Intel Smart
Toy Lab in . One theme that is common across these PC-connected toys is that use
rs interact with them using a combination of visual, audible and tactile input &
output modalities. The presentation will provide an overview of the interaction
design of these products and pose some unique challenges faced by designers and
engineers of such experiences targeted at novice computer users, namely young c
hildren.
5. The familiar and useful come from things we recognize. Many of our favorite t
hings' appearance communicate their use; they show the change in their value tho
ugh patina. As technologists we are now poised to imagine a world where computin
g objects communicate with us in-situ; where we are. We use our looks, feelings,
and actions to give the computer the experience it needs to work with us. Keybo
ards and mice will not continue to dominate computer user interfaces. Keyboard i
nput will be replaced in large measure by systems that know what we want and req
uire less explicit communication. Sensors are gaining fidelity and ubiquity to r
ecord presence and actions; sensors will notice when we enter a space, sit down,
lie down, pump iron, etc. Pervasive infrastructure is recording it. This talk w
ill cover projects from the Context Aware Computing Group at MIT Media Lab.

Questions:
1. In the future, ordinary household devices -- such as televisions, refrigerato
rs, and ovens -- may be able to do their jobs when we look at them and speak to
them. Creatively think up a application of the IBM 'emotion mouse' specifically
in the houshold devices? /
2. Several correlation studies have be discussed between color and one s emotion st
atus , provide an application wherein you could utilize BlueEyes in this context./

3. The emotion mouse could be used to display the feelings and reactions of e-co
mmerce customers. Do you think this is a good idea or not? Substantiate.
References:
1. Retrived on nov 10,2005 from
www.alphaworks.ibm.com/awap.nsf/alltype/86ECE8569056DDC788256AEE007A9702 2. Retr
ieved on Nov 10,2005 from
www.cse.ogi.edu/CHCC/Series/text2001.html
3.BlueEyes Technology,Computer Edge,Oct.2002,pages 23-27.
4.BlueEyes Technology and Apllications,Business Solutions, Nov 2001,pages 95-99.

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