ubiGaze

[2016]

ubiGaze is a novel wearable ubiquitous method to augment any real-world object with invisible messages through gaze gestures that lock the message into the object. This enables a context and location dependent messaging service, which users can utilize discreetly and effortlessly. Gaze gestures are used as an authentication method, even when the augmented object is publicly known.

We developed a prototype using two wearable devices: a Pupil eye tracker equipped with a scene camera and a Sony Smartwatch 3. The eye tracker follows the users’ gaze, the scene camera captures distinct features from the selected real-world object, and the smartwatch provides both input and output modalities for selecting and displaying messages.

We developed this project during the 7th UBISS Summer School in Oulu (Finland), at the “EYEWORKS: Designing Interactions with Eye Movements” workshop, and received a Distinguished Project Award.

Authors Team: Mihai Bâce, David Gil de Gomez, Teemu Leppänen, Argenis Ramirez Gomez