Eye Tracking Interactive - Iteration 2

The eye tracking interactive teaches kids and adults that their brain is hardwired to look for faces, motion, and changes in color. It accomplishes this experience by showing them a short video followed by the same video with an overlay of where they were looking.

The first version of the eye tracking interactive went through user testing and a few changes had to be made to help the user calibrate with the eye tracker. A problem I was facing with the eye tracker is to make it accessible for children and adults - dealing with their various heights. The first version was using face tracking to estimate where the persons face was in three-dimensional space, but this proved to be tricky since people continued to move after they calibrated. The removal of the face tracking system and an addition of a pair of eye-glass frames proved to be an easier way to keep people's head still while they were watching the video. Furthermore, the eye-glass frames conveyed the information that the user's eyes are being used to interact with the interactive. The following images and video show the changes made to the interactive.

Lie to Me

Lie to Me is an experience that teaches kids and adults about micro-expressions. When lying, the brain reveals its inner state through micro-expressions that cannot be controlled. I prototyped Lie to Me while working for the Franklin Institute. This digital interactive involves two players, one interrogator and one liar, facing each other across a table. They interact face-to-face and with two touch screens. A webcam is recording the liar every time the interrogator asks a question. The interrogator's objective is to analyze three video recordings of the liar and look for micro-expressions, and finally, choose the answer that contains the lie. This experience was developed using processing.

Eye Tracking Interactive

A recent project I've designed and prototyped is an interactive that teaches kids and adults that their brains are hardwired to look for faces, motion, and changes in color. The following images and video show the first iteration of the interactive as it's prepared to be user tested.

In The Local News!

I just found out that the work I did at the Franklin Institute just made it onto the local ABC news. The piece is about interactively visualizing the human nervous system. You can see the prototype in the following video towards the end of the 30 second clip.

Newsworks, a local news organization powered by WHYY, also covered it in this article.

When the exhibit finally opens in 2014, you'll be seeing this piece to the entrance of the exhibit.

Visualizing the Human Nervous System at the Franklin Institute

Last Fall I worked at the Franklin Institute again, developing another application with the Kinect. The interaction reveals the users internal nervous system. See the videos and images for how people interact with it and learn about the nervous system.

Internship at the Franklin Institute

While at the Franklin Institute, I worked on prototyping an interactive to teach children and adults about change blindness by having them experience it. There's a popular youtube video by Daniel Simons that served as inspiration for this project. Watch the video for a demo and enjoy the pictures.