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Exploiting Eye Gaze Information for Operating Services in Home Network System

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Ubiquitous Computing Systems (UCS 2006)

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This paper presents a system which extensively exploits user’s eye gaze information for operating services and appliances in the emerging home network system (HNS). We design and implement the system called AXELLA, which captures user’s gaze, then invokes a service operation, and finally announces the response via voice. AXELLA interprets the gaze information together with supplementary information as a gaze context, and triggers a service module associated by a service rule. Thus, a simple gazing activity can be used for various service operations. Service developers (or even home users) can easily develop context-aware HNS services with the eye-gaze-based UI. We demonstrate a practical service called “See and Know” implemented using AXELLA, where a user can acquire the current status information of every appliance just by looking at the appliance. It was shown that the proposed system can reduce the artificial dependency significantly with respect to ease-of-learning and system scalability.

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  1. Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5 Takayama, Ikoma, Nara, 630-0192, Japan

    Kohei Mitsui, Masahide Nakamura & Ken-ichi Matsumoto

  2. Department of Information and Telecommunication Engineering, Nanzan University, 27 Seirei, Seto, Aichi, 489-0863, Japan

    Hiroshi Igaki

  3. Department of Electrical Engineering, Nara National College of Technology, 22 Yata, Yamatokoriyama, Nara, 639-1080, Japan

    Kentaro Takemura

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  1. Dept. of Computer Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Republic of Korea

    Hee Yong Youn

  2. Graduate School of Information and Communication Engineering, Ajou University, Suwon, Republic of Korea

    Minkoo Kim

  3. The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo, 113-8656, Tokyo, Japan

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Mitsui, K., Igaki, H., Nakamura, M., Matsumoto, Ki., Takemura, K. (2006). Exploiting Eye Gaze Information for Operating Services in Home Network System. In: Youn, H.Y., Kim, M., Morikawa, H. (eds) Ubiquitous Computing Systems. UCS 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4239. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11890348_2

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