Wearable EOG goggles: Seamless sensing and context-awareness in everyday environments

  • Authors:
  • Andreas Bulling;Daniel Roggen;Gerhard Trö/ster

  • Affiliations:
  • (Correspd. E-mail address: bulling@ife.ee.ethz.ch/ Tel.: +41 44 632 2996/ Fax: +41 44 632 1210) Wearable Computing Laboratory, ETH Zurich, Gloriastrasse 35, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland;Wearable Computing Laboratory, ETH Zurich, Gloriastrasse 35, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland;Wearable Computing Laboratory, ETH Zurich, Gloriastrasse 35, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In this article we introduce the analysis of eye motion as a new input modality for activity recognition, context-awareness and mobile HCI applications. We describe a novel embedded eye tracker that, in contrast to common systems using video cameras, relies on Electrooculography (EOG). This self-contained wearable device consists of goggles with dry electrodes integrated into the frame and a small pocket-worn component with a DSP for real-time EOG signal processing. It can store data locally for long-term recordings or stream processed EOG signals to a remote device over Bluetooth. We show how challenges associated with wearability, eye motion analysis and signal artefacts caused by physical activity can be addressed with a combination of a special mechanical design, optimised algorithms for eye movement detection and adaptive signal processing. In two case studies, we demonstrate that EOG is a suitable measurement technique for the recognition of reading activity and eye-based human-computer interaction. Eventually, wearable EOG goggles may pave the way for seamless eye movement analysis in everyday environments and new forms of context-awareness not possible today.