As an interdisciplinary project, the three Geomatics Master students Laura Schalbetter, Tianyu Wu and Xavier Brunner have developed an indoor navigation system for Microsoft HoloLens 2. The system was implemented using ESRI CityEngine, Unity, and Microsoft Visual Studio.
Check out their video:
Dr. Ioannis Giannopoulos received the ETH Zurich Culmann Award in 2017 for an outstanding doctoral thesis “Supporting Wayfinding Through Mobile Gaze-Based Interaction”.
A double Special Issue on “Eye Tracking for Spatial Research” in Spatial Cognition&Computation, guest-edited by Peter, Ioannis, Martin, and Andrew Duchowski, has appeared [URL].
Nineteen manuscripts were submitted to an open Call for Submissions, out of which seven were finally accepted after a rigorous review process.
The Special Issue commences with an overview article, authored by the Guest Editors: “Eye tracking for spatial research: Cognition, computation, challenges” [URL, PDF].
The latest issue of the Horizonte magazine, published by the Swiss National Science Foundation, is reporting on our research.
Source: Horizonte 111, December 2016
Martin Raubal was invited for the INNOLEC Lecture at the Department of Geography of the Masaryk University Brünn, Czech Republic.
The title of his talk is: Gaze-based assistance for wayfinders in the real world (slides as PDF, all our presentations).
Verena Schnitzler, Ioannis Giannopoulos, Christoph Hölscher and Iva Barisic (2016). The Interplay of Pedestrian Navigation, Wayfinding Devices, and Environmental Features in Indoor Settings. In Proceedings of the 2016 symposium on Eye tracking research & applications (ETRA ’16). ACM
Thank you all for the great teamwork over the last years and for the very cool hat you made for me!
We offer topics for student theses on Bachelor and Master level:
Bachelor (PDF, German)
Master (PDF, English)
You may also propose your own topic related to eye tracking, wayfinding, or gaze-based interaction. Contact us for more information!
The full lists of all topics (including non-eye tracking topics) can be found on the main page of the Chair of Geoinformation Engineering.
Ioannis Giannopoulos, Peter Kiefer, and Martin Raubal (2015). GazeNav: Gaze-Based Pedestrian Navigation. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices & Services. ACM, New York, NY, USA.
Leading Mobile HCI researchers from all over the world meet in Copenhagen to present innovative research and gadgets. Our research group is present with 4 contributions. Read More
Kiefer, P., Scheider, S., Giannopoulos, I., and Weiser, P. (2015). A wayfinding grammar based on reference system transformations. In S.I. Fabrikant, M. Raubal, M. Bertolotto, C. Davies, S. Freundschuh, and S. Bell (Eds.), Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2015), volume 9368 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 447-467. Springer International Publishing
A summary of our research on “Gaze-Based Geographic Human Computer Interaction” (PDF) is included as a research highlight in the annual report 2014 of our department (D-BAUG, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering).
Two students have started their Master theses in the GeoGazeLab:
Aikaterini Tsampazi, a Master student in Geomatics, will use eye tracking to measure the visual behavior of wayfinders in a virtual environment in her Master thesis titled “Pedestrian Navigation: The use of navigation aids under time pressure in virtual urban environments”. The goal will be to investigate how pedestrian wayfinders behave under time pressure.
Yufan Miao, a Master student in Computational Science from Uppsala University, is visiting our group in spring and summer 2015. He will be working on his Master thesis on “Landmark detection for mobile eye tracking”, co-supervised by our group and the Chair of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (Prof. Schindler). The goal is to apply image processing techniques to outdoor eye tracking videos for the automatic computation of the object of regard.
Kiefer, P. (2015). Blickbasierte Mensch-Computer-Interaktion mit Geoinformationssystemen. In Thomas H. Kolbe, Ralf Bill, and Andreas Donaubauer, editors, Geoinformationssysteme 2015. Wichmann, Heidelberg.
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Ioannis Giannopoulos, Peter Kiefer, and Martin Raubal. Watch What I Am Looking At! Eye Gaze and Head-Mounted Displays. In Mobile Collocated Interactions: From Smartphones to Wearables, Workshop at CHI 2015, Seoul, Korea, 2015.
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We are planning a Special Issue on “Eye Tracking for Spatial Research” in Spatial Cognition and Computation: Call for Submissions (PDF).
Submission Deadline is May 27, 2015.
We offer topics for student theses on Bachelor and Master level:
[Please refer to the latest posting on topics.]
You may also propose your own topic related to eye tracking, wayfinding, or gaze-based interaction. Contact us for more information!
The full lists of all topics (including non-eye tracking topics) can be found on the main page of the Chair of Geoinformation Engineering.