Eye-Tracking Mac Tablet
Eye-tracking on a tablet. Why? because no one wants to hunch over the table when writing their shamefully dull memoirs, and neither do they want to sit back and squint to read the screen…Just a little idea from the sketchbook:
more images after the break…
The idea here is that when writing long documents, the user can sit back and activate the eye tracking mode (a key on the keyboard). The web-camera in the top of the device could then continuously track your eye-level using red-eye tracking for exact position or facial recognition for more general position. In turn, the page, document, or general interface would then animate a 3d transform to better show the document from your angle. This would essentially warp the page shape if someone else was to look at it from above.
A few features I’ve thought about:
- The transformation should be animated so as not to jerk around when you are talking to friends.
- If the eye tracking can’t find you, it should animate returning to the normal (flat) view.
- Maybe facial recognition could be used to only identify you, the user, so as not to find faces behind you or friends either side.
- The “eye-tracking view” activation/deactivation key should not be warped or moved while activated…otherwise the user could get stuck!
Thinking about it, the keyboard keys could also transform, for those of us who find it hard to find the “F” key on a regular basis.
