Το work with title Employing binocular eye tracking for the control of a custom-made immersive multimedia user interface (MUI) in Unity3D by Sidorakis Nikolaos is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Bibliographic Citation
Nikolaos Sidorakis, "Employing binocular eye tracking for the control of a custom-made immersive multimedia user interface (MUI) in Unity3D", Diploma Work, School of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, 2015
https://doi.org/10.26233/heallink.tuc.31651
In this thesis, we present an innovative approach to design a gaze controlled Multimedia User Interface for modern, immersive headsets. The wide-spread availability of consumer grade Virtual Reality Head Mounted Displays such as the Oculus RiftTM transformed VR to a commodity available for everyday use. However, Virtual Environments require new paradigms of User Interfaces, since standard 2D interfaces are designed to be viewed from a static vantage point only, e.g. the computer screen. Additionally, traditional input methods such as the keyboard and mouse are hard to manipulate when the user wears a Head Mounted Display. We present a 3D Multimedia User Interface based on eye-tracking and develop six applications which cover commonly operated actions of everyday computing such as mail composing and multimedia viewing. We perform a user study to evaluate our system by acquiring both quantitative and qualitative data. The study indicated that users make less type errors while operating the eye-controlled interface compared to using the standard keyboard during immersive viewing. Subjects stated that they enjoyed the eye-tracking 3D interface more than the keyboard/mouse combination.