Google Tracks Your Eyes When Testing its Designs

[g0rilla]

[citation][nom]razercultmember1[/nom]How does Google eye track you without a webcam or is it just the mouse that is tracked?[/citation]

This was all done at Google in their testing labs.

 

[phone_trouble]

and yet ANOTHER reason to NOT use Google.

 

[randomizer]

[citation][nom]phone_trouble[/nom]and yet ANOTHER reason to NOT use Google.[/citation]
No, this would be a reason not to sign up as a Google lab tester.

 

[jaygee02]

[citation][nom]phone_trouble[/nom]and yet ANOTHER reason to NOT use Google.[/citation]

Because thorough product-testing is a bad thing?

 

[willgart]

what's new?
everybody knows how the eye scan a page. (at least I have learn this at the university)
And more true with a simple page like the google one!
a big logo, a testbox just after... the eye start at the logo to go to the textbox... what a surprise!
And google need an incredible laboratory and technology to find this???
maybe their engineers are not so good...

 

[putgow]

IT is too bad google sold out, they could be a legit company on the cutting edge of tech.

 

[Maxor127]

I hate Google Instant.

 

[ispam]

This technology has existed for years, Google is not innovating anything here. http://www.thinkeyetracking.com

 

[alyoshka]

Cool.... even though it may be old, it still needs a lot of working on, atleast someone is doing it without wasting millions....

 

[DjEaZy]

... and that's why we have webcams... and facial recognition in piasa...

 

[r0x0r]

Well it looks like Google...

*puts on sunglasses*

Can't track my eyes now

YYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

 

[eddieroolz]

I don't really use Google, but this is a rather curious study.

 

[sviola]

[citation][nom]Parsian[/nom]so we gonna see advertisers using this from now on?[/citation]

Floating advertisements that follow your eyes? Well, there is always a way to make adverts can get more obnoxious.

 

[dman3k]

I wonder where people will be looking at in porn

 

[zak_mckraken]

[citation][nom]dman3k[/nom]I wonder where people will be looking at in porn... the kitty or the dick?[/citation]
Well, they're usually so close to each other (I assume) that it will be hard to distinguish!

 

[rh_dog]

[citation][nom]r0x0r[/nom]Well it looks like Google...*puts on sunglasses*Can't track my eyes nowYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!![/citation]

LOL + 1!

 

[kingssman]

I noticed nobody seems to pay attention to the "i'm feeling lucky" button

 

[badaxe2]

I can't imagine the involuntary amount of eye movement that would generate the mess of geometry on the left, because I know I don't try to make my eyes move like that lol.

 

[tempelife]

Google knows more about you than you! Scary.

 

[gogogadgetliver]

Yawn. Microsoft research has done this for about a *decade* now. One of the more interesting videos I've seen on UI design describes how the Office Ribbon came to be (has eye tracking and heatmaps of course).. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jensenh/archive/2008/03/12/the-story-of-the-ribbon.aspx