Conference Announcement
³Eye Tracking Research and Applications Symposium (ETRA) 2002²

25-27 March 2002, New Orleans, LA
Sponsored by ACM SIGCHI and SIGGRAPH

On behalf of the ETRA program committee, we are pleased to announce the 2nd
biennial Eye Tracking Research & Applications Symposium, 25-27 March 2002 in
New Orleans, LA. We apologize if you receive this message more than  once.
The ETRA symposium is the only US-based meeting focusing specifically on eye
tracking research and applications.

We have completed the conference program, included below and available at:
 <http://www.vr.clemson.edu/eyetracking/etra/2002/program/>

Conference registration is now open at:
  <https://campus.acm.org/register/etra02/>

Please register before February 22, 2002 to ensure pre-registration rates.
Please also note that conference registration does not include accommodation
or flights.  To book accommodation, please see:
  <http://www.vr.clemson.edu/eyetracking/etra/2002/accommodation.html>
or contact the conference hotel:
  <http://www.chateaulemoyne.com/>  or at (504) 581-1303.
To obtain event rates, reservations by attendees must be received on or
before February 22, 2002. Mention "Eye Tracking Research & Applications
(ETRA) Symposium" to receive the conference rate. Please register early as
rooms at the conference rate are starting to fill up!

Thank you and hope to see you in New Orleans!

Andrew Duchowski            Roel Vertegaal
ETRA 02 General Chair       ETRA 02 Program Co-Chair

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                            Eye Tracking Research & Applications

                                       Symposium 2002
                           25-27 March 2002, New Orleans, LA, USA
                http://www.vr.clemson.edu/eyetracking/etra/2002/
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                                Conference Announcement

                                         Sponsored by ...
                                                ACM
                                ACM SIGCHI   ACM SIGGRAPH

                    With corporate sponsorship from ...

           LC Technologies                      Applied Science Laboratories
           SensoMotoric Instruments       SR Research Ltd
           Seeing Machines

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                                  Program
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                            MONDAY, 25 March 2002
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 9:00am -       Session 1: Opening Remarks & Keynote Address
 10:30am
                Opening Remarks
                     Andrew T. Duchowski (Clemson University, USA)

                Keynote Address: Vision in Natural and Virtual Environments
                     Mary M. Hayhoe (University of Rochester, USA)

                                     Sponsored by ...

                                     SR Research Ltd
                    SR Research Ltd welcomes our keynote speaker and all
                 participants to the Eye Tracking Research and Applications
                                        Symposium.

 10:30am        break

 11:00am -      Session 2: Principles & Methodology
 12:30pm        Session chair: Thos. Hutchinson
                Twenty Years of Eye Typing: Systems and Design Issues
                     Paivi Majaranta and Kari-Jouko Raiha (University of
                     Tampere, Finland)

                Designing Attentive Interfaces
                     Roel Vertegaal (Queens University, Canada)

                Fixation Maps: Quantifying Eye-Movement Traces
                     David Wooding (University of Derby, UK)

 12:30pm        lunch

 2:00pm -       Session 3: Blink Response, Visual Attention, and the WWW
 3:30pm         Session chair: Jeff Mulligan
                The Act of Task Difficulty and Eye-Movement Frequency for
                the Oculo-Motor Indices
                     Koji Takahashi, Minoru Nakayama (Tokyo Institute of
                     Technology, Japan), and Yasutaka Shimizu (National
                     Institute of Educational Policy Research, Japan)

                Visual Attention to Repeated Internet Images: Testing the
                Scanpath Theory on the World Wide Web
                     Sheree Josephson (Weber University, USA)

                Eye Tracking in Web Search Tasks: Design Implications
                     Joseph Goldberg, Mark Stimson, Marion Lewnstein, Neil
                     Scott, and Anna Wichansky (Oracle Corporation, USA)

 3:30pm         break

 4:00pm -       Session 4: Panel Discussion
 5:30pm         Panel moderator: Roel Vertegaal (Queen's University,
                Canada)
                What Do the Eyes Behold for Human-Computer Interaction?
                     Lester Loschky (University of Illinois at
                     Urbana-Champaign, USA)
                     Eyal Reingold (University of Toronto, Canada)
                     Claudia Mello-Thoms (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
                     Brooke Hallowell (Ohio University, USA)
                     Myron Flickner (IBM Almaden, USA)

 7:00pm -       Reception
 9:00pm

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                           TUESDAY, 26 March 2002
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 9:00am -       Session 5: Systems & Applications I
 10:30am        Session chair: Joe Goldberg
                On-Road Driver Eye Movement Tracking Using Head-Mounted
                Devices
                     M. Sodhi, Bryan Reimer, J. L. Coehn, E. Vastenburg, R.
                     Kaars, and S. Kirschenbaum (University of Rhode
                     Island, USA)

                A Software-based Eye Tracking System for the Study of
                Air-traffic Displays
                     Jeffrey B. Mulligan (NASA Ames Research Center, USA)

                Eye Gaze Correction for Videoconferencing
                     Jason Jerald and Mike Daily (UNC-Chapel Hill, USA)

 10:30am        break

 11:00am -      Session 6: Gaze-Contingent Displays
 12:30pm        Session chair: Myron Flickner
                Real-time Simulation of Arbitrary Visual Fields
                     Bill S. Geisler and Jeffrey S. Perr (University of
                     Texas at Austin, USA)

                Reduced Saliency of Peripheral Targets in Gaze-Contingent
                Multi-Resolutional Displays: Blended versus Sharp Boundary
                Areas of Interest
                     Eyal M. Reingold (University of Toronto, Canada) and
                     Lester C. Loschky (University of Illinois at
                     Urbana-Champaign, USA)

                Saccade Contingent Updating in Virtual Reality
                     Jochen Triesch, Brian Sullivan (UC San Diego, USA),
                     Mary Hayhoe, and Dana Ballard (University of
                     Rochester, USA)

 12:30pm        lunch

 2:00pm -       Session 7: Eye Movement Analysis & Visual Search
 3:30pm         Session chair: Brooke Hallowell
                3D Eye Movement Analysis for VR Visual Inspection Training
                     Andrew Duchowski, Eric Medlin, Nathan Cournia, Anand
                     Gramopadhye, Brian Melloy, and Santosh Nair (Clemson
                     University, USA)

                What Attracts the Eye to the Location of Missed and
                Reported Breast Cancers?
                     Claudia Mello-Thoms (University of Pittsburgh, USA),
                     Calvin F. Nodine, Harold L. Kundel (University of
                     Pennsylvania, USA),

                Visual Search: Structure from Noise
                     Umesh Rajashekar, Lawrence K. Cormack, and Alan C.
                     Bovik (Univ of Texas at Austin, USA)

 3:30pm         break

 4:00pm -       Session 8: Exhibits
 5:30pm
                   * LC Technologies
                   * Applied Science Laboratories
                   * Arrington Research, Inc.
                   * SR Research, Ltd.
                   * SensoMotoric Instruments

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                          WEDNESDAY, 27 March 2002
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 9:00am -       Session 9: Systems & Applications II
 10:30am        Session chair: Roel Vertegaal
                FreeGaze: A Gaze Tracking System for Everyday Gaze
                Interaction
                     Takehiko Ohno, Naoki Mukawa, and Atsushi Yoshikawa
                     (NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan)

                Differences in the Infrared Bright Pupil Response of Human
                Eyes
                     Karlene Nguyen, Cindy Wagner, David Koons, and Myron
                     Flickner (IBM Almaden Research Center, USA)

                Real-Time Eye Detection and Tracking Under Various Light
                Conditions
                     Zhiwei Zhu, Kikuo Fujimura, and Qiang Ji (Honda R & D
                     Americas, USA)

 10:30am        break

 11:00am -      Session 10: Planning ETRA 2004: Get Involved!
 12:30pm
                Anyone interested in participating in the organization of
                the next symposium is invited to attend!
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-- 
Andrew T. Duchowski, Asst. Prof.  office:444 Edwards Hall
Computer Science Dept., MS-0974   phone:864.656.7677 fax:864.656.0145
Clemson University                mailto:[log in to unmask]
Clemson, SC 29634-0974            http://www.vr.clemson.edu/~andrewd/

-- 
Professor Roel Vertegaal
:: hum@n medi@ l@b ::
Queen's University
Kingston, Canada  K7L3N6
Tel   (613) 533-3070
Web http://www.hml.queensu.ca