Assistant Professor Alexander Plopski from TU Graz Visited XR Group

Assistant Professor Alexander Plopski from TU Graz in Austria visited our lab. He toured our facilities and gave a talk on his latest research on gaze-aware augmented reality interfaces.

Title: Gaze-Aware Augmented Reality Interfaces

Abstract: Augmented Reality (AR) changes how we interact and perceive our surroundings by embedding computer-generated content into them. In particular, Optical See-Through Head-Mounted Displays (OST-HMD) that display information in-situ aligned with the real world can provide important information in real-time, directly in the user’s view of the world. Despite their potential, these devices still suffer from several issues that must be overcome before they can become more widely adopted. These problems span a variety of domains, such as geometrical accuracy, perceptual issues, context-sensitiveness, interaction, and privacy. In this talk, I will show how building on the old proverb “the eyes are a window to one’s soul”, we applied eye tracking and knowledge about the eye’s anatomy to develop novel displays and user interfaces that present information more intuitively and adapt to the user’s needs.