geoGAZElab

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geoGAZElab | LinkedIn geoGAZElab | 9 followers on LinkedIn. Research lab at ETH Zurich, part of the Chair of Geoinformation Engineering. We investigate visual attention while interacting with geo information and in spatial decision situations. Eye tracking technology is used in order to understand users, predict their be...

Fabian Göbel has successfully completed his doctoral thesis on “Visual Attentive User Interfaces for Feature-Rich Environments”. The doctoral graduation has been approved by the Department conference in their last meeting. Congratulations, Fabian!

After his thesis defense, Fabian has started a research internship at Microsoft on the topic of interaction with HoloLens 2. We wish him all the best and thank him for all the contributions he has made to our research!

PhD graduation Fabian Göbel Congratulations!

We're very much looking forward to the start of the 3D Sketch Maps project (http://www.geogaze.org/3d-sketch-maps/), for which we have now announced an open PhD position: Interaction with 3D Sketch Maps in Extended Reality.

The 3D Sketch Maps project, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation in the scope of the Sinergia funding program, investigates 3D sketch maps from a theoretical, empirical, cognitive, as well as tool-​related perspective, with a particular focus on Extended Reality (XR) technologies. Sketch mapping is an established research method in fields that study human spatial decision-​making and information processing, such as navigation and wayfinding. Although space is naturally three-​dimensional (3D), contemporary research has focused on assessing individuals’ spatial knowledge with two-​dimensional (2D) sketches. For many domains though, such as aviation or the cognition of complex multilevel buildings, it is essential to study people’s 3D understanding of space, which is not possible with the current 2D methods. Eye tracking will be used for the analysis of people's eye movements while using the sketch mapping tools.

The 4-​year project will be carried out jointly by the Chair of Geoinformation Engineering, the Chair of Cognitive Science at ETH Zurich (Prof. Dr. Christoph Hölscher), and the Spatial Intelligence Lab at University of Münster (Prof. Dr. Angela Schwering).

Interested? Please check out the open PhD position on the ETH job board (https://www.jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOPG_ethz_VBRLsgcEpot1GW5y80)!

http://www.geogaze.org/2021/09/new-project-and-open-position-3d-sketch-maps/

New project and open position: 3D Sketch Maps Funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation

We’re glad that Adrian Sarbach has joined the geoGAZElab as a doctoral student on the project “The Expanded Flight Deck – Improving the Weather Situation Awareness of Pilots (EFDISA)“.

Adrian has, among others, studied at EPFL (Bachelor) and at ETH Zurich (Master), obtaining his degrees in electrical engineering. He wrote his MSc thesis in collaboration with Swiss International Air Lines, on the topic of tail assignment optimization.

Adrian Sarbach joins the team on the EFDISA project

Our accepted paper “Gaze-Adaptive Lenses for Feature-Rich Information Spaces” will be presented at ACM ETRA 2021: May 25.2021 at 11:00 - 12:00 and 18:00 - 19:00 in "Posters & Demos & Videos" May 26.2021 at 14:45 - 16.15 in Track 1: "Full Papers V" Join the virtual conference for a chat!

Full Paper presentation at ETRA 2021 May 25.2021 at 11:00 – 12:00 and 18:00 – 19:00 in “Posters & Demos & Videos” May 26.2021 at 14:45 – 16.15 in Track 1: “Full Papers V”

Kuno Kurzhals has left us for his new position as Junior Research Group Lead in the Cluster of Excellence Integrative Computational Design and Construction for Architecture (IntCDC) at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. We wish him all the best and thank for the contributions he has made to the geoGAZElab during his PostDoc time!

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We are excited that we receive funding from the Swiss Federal Office of Civil Aviation (BAZL) for a new project, starting in July 2021: "The Expanded Flight Deck – Improving the Weather Situation Awareness of Pilots (EFDISA)". The project aims at improving contemporary pre-flight and in-flight representations of weather data for pilots. This will allow pilots to better perceive, understand, and anticipate meteorological hazards....

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As an interdisciplinary project, the three Geomatics Master students Laura Schalbetter, Tianyu Wu and Xavier Brunner have developed an indoor navigation system for Microsoft HoloLens 2. The system was implemented using ESRI CityEngine, Unity, and Microsoft Visual Studio. Check out their video:

Results of the Interdisciplinary Project 2020 HoloNav. An interdisciplinary project:

Our paper “Recognizing Pilot State: Enabling Tailored In-Flight Assistance Through Machine Learning” has been published in the proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Cognitive Aircraft Systems: Lutnyk, L., Rudi, D., Kiefer, P., & Raubal, M. (2020). Recognizing Pilot State: Enabling Tailored In-Flight Assistance Through Machine Learning ICCAS 2020. Abstract. Moving towards the highly controversial single pilot cockpit, more and more automation capabilities are added to today’s airliners....

Workshop Paper published from ICCAS 2020 Lutnyk L., Rudi D., Kiefer P., and Raubal M. (2020). Recognizing Pilot State: Enabling Tailored In-Flight Assistance Through Machine Learning. In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on …

After a Corona-caused delay in the hiring process, we're excited to announce that Suvodip Chakraborty will start as a PhD student in our Singapore-based project on Communicating Predicted Disruptions in the scope of the Future Resilient Systems 2 research program. Suvodip will start in January 2021. Suvodip holds a Master of Science from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. His Master thesis was titled "Design of Electro-oculography based wearable systems for eye movement analysis".

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As last year, we are involved in the organization of ETRA 2021, the ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications. Peter is again co-chairing the Demo&Video Track, for which the Call is now available online. The submission deadline is 2 February 2021.

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Pilots not only have to make the right decisions, but they have to do it quickly and process a lot of information - especially visual information. In a unique project, ETH Zurich and Swiss International Air Lines have investigated what the eyes of pilots do in this process. Martin Raubal, Professor of Geoinformation Engineering at ETH Zurich, appreciates the practical relevance of this research collaboration, which could contribute to increasing flight safety. [ 39 more words ]

Workshop talk: Flight safety – Line of sight Watch the video on Vimeo!