[Sigia-l] Click that eye

[Jonathan Baker-Bates]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sigia-l-bounces at asis.org 
> [mailto:sigia-l-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf Of Ziya Oz
> Sent: 11 July 2006 01:40
> To: SIGIA-L
> Subject: [Sigia-l] Click that eye
> 
> "Eye-trackers will one day be so reliable and so simple that 
> they will become yet another input device on your computer, 
> like a much more sophisticated mouse," said Professor 
> Guang-Zhong Yang of the Department of Computing at Imperial College.
> 
> <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2098030.stm>
> 
> Do you believe it?

It's a wonderfully vague article (to the point of complete uselessness),
but I'll bite. 

I'm not an HCI guru so I'm on thin ice with this, but is this idea not
fundamentally flawed? Computer interaction generally has a "point and
shoot" model: you use your senses to "acquire" a target for interaction,
you then need to think about something before you "shoot" with the input
device to initiate the interaction with the system. If you combine the
acquisition mechanism with the input device it'll be like
www.dontclick.it, only ten times worse.

Jonathan


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