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ET-seminar 2012-01-27: Ignace Hooge about search of small objects near borders
Today Ignace Hooge talked about visual search for specific, known targets - such as searching for a contact lens on the floor, a particular village in a map, or a tumor in a mammography image. It is known that the border of the object may masked by neighbouring borders, degrading the perceived contrast around the… »
ET-seminar 2011-12-16: Choice blindness and implicit measures of detection
At today’s seminar Philip Pärnamets presented his study that uses eye movements to investigate choice blindness. In this paradigm, participants are tricked into thinking they selected something else than what they actually selected. Although this effect is considered stable across many tasks - people do get fooled, and do not remember what they actually selected… »
ET-seminar 2011-12-09: Using Multiple Instance Learning for Event Detection in Eye Movement data
At today’s seminar Henrik Blidh presented his master thesis in mathematical statistics entitled ‘Using Multiple Instance Learning for Event Detection in Eye Movement data’. Like Linnea Larsson’s seminar a few weeks ago, Henrik’s thesis targets the detection of blinks, fixations, saccades, smooth pursuit, and glissades, but, unlike Linnea, Henrik approaches the problem from a machine… »
Experimental Design course
A new course in Expermental Design is being run at the Humanities Lab by post-doctoral researcher Richard Dewhurst, beginning Feb 2012. Please email Richard.Dewhurst@humlab.lu.se if you want to sign up. The course is particularly targeted at beginning PhD students, who want to address a research question with quantitative methods.
Overview
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ET-seminar 2011-12-02: Detection of lesions in zoomable microscopes using eye tracking
At today’s seminar, Thomas Jaarsma and Halzska Jarodzka presented a planned study where the eye track physicians who diagnose lesions from x-rays using a zoomable microscope. Most eye-tracking studies of the medical diagnosis process have worked with still images, often x-rays of chests or mammograms. Working with zoomable images introduce many new challenges, just like… »
What’s for sale?
Last week, we had a workshop on webometrics. Inspired by the demonstrations, I wrote an R-script that scans the Swedish online marketplace “blocket” for a specified category (e.g., cars, garden tools, bikes, etc.), and creates a wordcloud of the products that are for sale within that category. An example of what is for sale within… »
IT units that insist on installing virus software on eye trackers
A colleague of mine recently told me a story I have heard many times, and which has pestered our own laboratory throughout its history. It is interesting for many reasons, partly technical, partly because it constitutes the core of competence in any laboratory of our kind, and partly because it points to a severe weakness… »
Eyetracking on the science show of national Swedish Radio
The eye tracking group appeared on the science show Vetandets värld on national Swedish Radio recently. Listen to the pod version here: http://sverigesradio.se/api/radio/radio.aspx?type=broadcast&id=3527509&codingformat=.m4a&metafile=asx
Read here (Swedish only):… »
Studying Digital Cultures
Webometrics workshop HEX, the Laboratory of the Humanities and the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences invite researchers at the faculty of humanities and theology (and like minded) to a workshop on methods and tools for studying the web. For more information… »