Eye Motion Experiment - Javi Lee

Description

• Motivation

My main motivation for this project was to experiment and document on the processes of the human mind differentiating between males and females. I wanted to see what each gender would specifically look at when shown an image. My hypothesis would be that when shown an image of a sexy female, the males would naturally look at the breast and the butt, whereas the females would look more at the face and the abs. I wanted to see if males and females minds are the same or if they were indeed different.

In order to see how this experiment would work, I wanted to hook up each participant to an eye tracking webcam. This webcam would track the iris of the eye and display that path on the screen. This track will be clear and visible for the audience standing behind the participant to see. The participant will only see the images but will not be able to see the screen where his eyes will be tracking. I wanted to display an array of images, not limited to people, and see what aspect of the images each gender concentrates on.

• Technical Description

I wanted to use Processing to create a code that will track the eyeball. This code will also draw the path that the eyeball takes. In order to track the eyeball, I wanted to create some kind of glasses that is connected to a webcam that will track the iris of the eyeball.

Unfortunately this one did not work.