Clemson University

-Human computer interaction research

Clemson’s eye tracking laboratory was established in 1998 by Prof. Duchowski for research and education with funding awards from the National Science Foundation and Clemson’s Innovation Fund. The lab equipment consists of three Tobii eye trackers.  Each dual-headed workstation consists of the Tobii eye tracker, a Windows XP server and a Linux client PC. 

Projects range from diagnostic off-line eye movement analysis to real-time human-computer interaction and computer graphics.  Clemson University have explored interface control with gaze, human-to-human communication with visual deictic reference, and assistive technology with a gaze-contingent magnification lens.  Publications have appeared at SIGCHI, ETRA, and elsewhere.

The availability of multiple eye tracking workstations alleviates student contention issues, particularly when Dr. Duchowski’s Eye Tracking Methodology course is offered. Taught since 1999, this class is open to students from Computer Science, Psychology, Industrial Engineering, and Marketing.  Emphasizing research, student-authored publications have appeared at Graphics Interface, EuroGraphics Symposium on Virtual Environments, and meetings of the Vision Sciences and the Human Factors and Ergonomics Societies.

Laboratory and expert consultation services may be available to companies wishing to explore eye movement training and research, e.g., user-centered product development and evaluation, marketing analysis, or expert/novice scanpath comparisons.

“We use several Tobii eye trackers in our eye tracking course at Clemson. The Tobii really allows a large amount of head-movement, and it does a very good, robust job of tracking the user’s eyes. Since the system is so “plug and play”, all of my students can easily use the system for their projects. In my experience, it is also easy to write custom programs for the tracker.”

Andrew Duchowski, Assoc Professor of Computer Science
Clemson University