Future Applications
Simulators and Operator Training
It is potentially very useful to know what airplane pilots or control room operators are doing with their eyes. Good pilots, for example, develop efficient scan patterns where they routinely look at critical instruments and out the cockpit. Eyetracking systems monitoring student pilots' eyes in training simulators can help instructors determine whether the pilots are developing good scan patterns and whether they look at the right places when they get into certain situations such as landing or emergencies.
Similarly, airport traffic controllers should be aware of all traffic. Eyetracking can assure that each controller is routinely scanning his screen and not missing any aircraft.
Video and Arcade Games
Identify the threat, acquire the target, move the scene right or left all with your eyes! Or place the bet, pull the handle, or deal yourself three cards.
The door is just opening on the potential for using eyetracking technology in a broad range of gaming venues. With Eyegaze, this is all possible with relatively easy integration of the current Eyegaze technology into arcade, video and games of chance. Players need no head gear or special equipment to bring games into the future. Game developers need only use their imagination to see how eyetracking technology will add an entire new dimension to their products.
