Archive for August, 2005

05-08-22

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RAMP: Realizing Achievement in Mathematics Performance was a project lead by Everly Broadway (Principal Investigator), who is also the primary contact person for external research in Durham Public School system. The project looks quite interesting

http://www.shodor.org/ramp/
Funded under the guidelines for Local Systemic Change (LSC) through Teacher Enhancement in […]

">RAMP: Realizing Achievement in Mathematics Performance

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05-08-22

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There is no doubt that we live on the Google Earth. I put the original version KeyHole on the Watch List almost a year ago. It looks like a fun toy, but to turn it into a grand idea, here is a thought.
Google should levege its image search database, and map images according to the […]

">Google Earth
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05-08-22

Tags: CJK Language Identifier

This is one of the random hits I got googling for unrelated things. 
Classification and Identification of Multi-lingual Documents ————————————————————
Jie Ding, Louisa Lam, and Ching Suen
Centre […]

">How to tell Chinese, Japanese, and Korean apart

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05-08-22

Tags: Following up on the previous post, here is a figure from Pannasch et al (2001, from the Velichkovsky lab) on Vision Research.
 
Pannasch, S., Dornhoefer, S.M., Unema, P.J.A. & Velichkovsky, B.M. (2001). The omnipresent prolongation of visual fixations: saccades are inhibited by changes in situation and in subject’s activity. Vision […]

">Pannasch et al (2001) - The omnipresent prolongation of visual fixations
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05-08-22

Tags: That magical 180 ms. I have seen over and over again in reading tasks that fixation duration distributions peak at around 160-180ms, and again at around 250-350ms. The first peak seems to be remarkably stable across populations.
The following is a figure from Velichkovsky et al (2005), showing the relationship between fixation duration and […]

">Fixation Duration and Saccade Length in scene perception
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05-08-19

Tags: Prof.Dr. B.M.Velichkovsky at Applied Cognitive Research Unit of Dresden University of Technology has for many years studied the relation between fixation duration and cognition in perceptual tasks. Here are some of the publications on the topic. The last paper was presented at ECEM13.
Dornhoefer, S.M., Pannasch, S., Velichkovsky, B.M. & Unema, P.J.A. (2000). "Attentional landscapes" […]

">Prof.Dr. B.M.Velichkovsky
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05-08-19

Tags: Blog - Julia West » eyePatterns

eyePatterns

March 29th, 2005

eyePatterns, my masters project, is a tool for organizing, analyzing, and visualizing gaze sequence (or scanpath, trace, fixation sequence, time sequence) data. Its need arises from the complete lack of tools to analyze sequential eye path data and thus is marketed to eye tracking […]

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05-08-19

Tags: Tried the EyeFollower from LC Technology at ECEM. It’s a quite impressive system. With 2 cameras sitting on quick pan-tilt bases, the system claims to sample at 120 Hz — interpolated across the 2 60Hz cameras. It seems to be able to track the pupil with slow head movements, but it’s not clear what’s the […]

">EyeFollower - Totally Free Head Motion, Automatic Eye Acquisition, Binocular Eyetracking, High Gazepoint Tracking Accuracy, Easy User Calibration
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05-08-19

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Lorenz "Max" Sichelschmidt is not a stern person as this picture depicts. I had the pleasure to chat with him at a Thai restaraunt at Bern during ECEM. He is soft spoken and fun.  
Lorenz Sichelschmidt , born in 1954, is a lecturer and researcher at the University of Bielefeld, Germany. He received a […]

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05-08-19

Tags: Kai Essig and colleagues presented a poster on ECEM13 about their EyeDataAnalyzer program. Lorenz "Max" Sichelschmidt is among the team.

Tracking of Eye Movements and Visual Attention - Neuroinformatics Group - Bielefeld University
EyeDataAnalyser
The EyeDataAnalyser is a graphical tool to view, analyse and interpret the data recorded by the eyetracker. It is designed as an […]

">EyeDataAnalyzer

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05-08-19

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Erik Reichle and Patryk Laurent reported their first effort to model eye movement programming in reading using a reinforcement learning algorithm on ECEM13. That’s a route I have been thinking since my dissertation work. I’ve played with a toy model, but should get back to it now.
I was looking for someone at Duke who does […]

">Ron Parr: Reinforcement learning
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05-08-15

Tags: Scott McDonald reported todaz at ECEM13 Bern a simulation studz of fixation duration distribution in reading using the LATER model proposed bz Roger Carpenter and the split-hemifield model of eze movement programming bz Richard Shillcock adn colleagues. Here is their model:
The Computational Modelling of Eye Movements: Interhemispheric, Syntactic and Semantic Influences
The SERIF Model
Our implemented model […]

">LATER, the fixation duration model
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05-08-14

Tags: Sounds quite interesting. Raymond Bertram and Jukka Hyönä will give a talk at ECEM13 on teh effect of predictability in Finnish words.

Kaakinen J K, Bertram R & Hyönä J (2004)
Research on the eye movement of readers: from recognizing words to text comprehension strategies
Psykologia 39:92-104. Vammala ISSN 0355-1067.
This article summarizes recent findings from our eye movement […]

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05-08-14

Tags: Rudolf Groner will also present at ECEM13 on the 18th, although he also has a lot of other activities at the conference — he is local.

 Prof. Dr.    Rudolf Groner    Universität Bern    Institut für Psychologie    Postfach    3000 Bern 9 Phone: 031 631 40 46    Email: rudolf.groner@psy.unibe.ch

Professor for psychology and their quantitative methods at the University of […]

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05-08-14

Tags: Walter Bischof will head a symposium at ECEM13 on Formal Models of Eye Movements on Aug 18th. Unfortunately my flight is earlz in the morning and will have to miss the szmposium. From his webpages he has a quite unusual career trajectorz, at least for a pszchologist. Bz the waz, he was from Bern.
http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/people/faculty/wfb.php

 
Walter […]

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05-08-11

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Shadow has been taken off air by our IT dept for more than a month, while I was traveling in Beijing and Tokyo.  I was told it was hacked and defaced, thought I haven’t actually seen anything. I am back to my office today and just turned it up again. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Life […]

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05-08-10

Tags:Education OddsnEnds perceptual learning psychology reading Research Teaching Charles Lim, Director of the Institute of Perceptual Learning, an Austrilia start-up, is promoting "Perceptual Reading":

Reading is the most cost effective way of learning. Independent reading means independent learning. Reading enables a child, from a very young age, to learn from […]

">Perceptual Learning of Reading?

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05-08-03

Tags: The ClearView program that comes with the Tobii eye tracker uses SnagIt from TechSmith.com for creating AVI movies of eye movements. There are some positive reviews of the program, which costs about $40, but I still like the freeware CamStudio 2.1 (by the eHelp Corporation old HomePage now taken over by Macromedia under the name […]

">SnagIt: screen to movie capture
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