TY  - THES
ID  - bulling10_eth
T1  - Eye Movement Analysis for Context Inference and Cognitive-Awareness: Wearable Sensing and Activity Recognition Using Electrooculography
A1  - Bulling, Andreas
Y1  - 2010
M1  - PhD Thesis, Diss. ETH No. 19082
T2  - ETH Zurich
N1  - ISBN: 978-3-909386-34-5
UR  - http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/eye-movement-analysis-for-context-inference-and-cognitive-awareness/11704049
KW  - Activity Recognition
KW  - Cognitive-Awareness
KW  - Context Inference
KW  - Context-awareness
KW  - Electrooculography
KW  - Eye Movement Analysis
KW  - Wearable Sensing
N2  - Context-awareness has emerged as a key area of research in mobile and ubiquitous computing. Research on automatic inference of context has mostly focused on using sensors such as accelerometers or gyroscopes to recognise body movement, hand and arm gestures, or posture.

The current work introduces eye movement analysis as a novel modality for context inference and cognitive-awareness. The movement patterns the eyes perform as people carry out different activities reveal much about the activities themselves. In the same manner, eye movements are influenced by the current location or a particular environment. In addition, unconscious eye movements are linked to several cognitive processes of visual perception. These characteristics make eye movements a distinct source of information on a user's context. Eventually, information derived from eye movements may allow us to extend the current notion of context with a cognitive dimension, leading to so-called cognitive-aware systems. This work develops and evaluates wearable sensing and pattern recognition solutions for eye-based activity recognition, eye-based human-computer interaction and cognitive-awareness using electrooculography.
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