Designing with Your Eyes: Active and Two-Way Employment of Our Visual Sense

Cameron Wells; Marc Aurel Schnabel; Andre Brown; Tane Moleta

doi:10.1007/978-981-19-1280-1_32

Designing with Your Eyes: Active and Two-Way Employment of Our Visual Sense

Cameron Wells
, Marc Aurel Schnabel^*
, Andre Brown
, Tane Moleta

^*Corresponding author for this work

Victoria University of Wellington

Research output: Chapter in Book or Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Proceeding › peer-review

Abstract

Our eyes consume the visual field around us, and the brain processes that information as sight and visual content. By incorporating eye-tracking into the design process, we can in some way reverse that process and begin to rethink the role our eye-brain interaction plays instead of as a method of active external input rather than internal processing. Our research developed a prototype application, the Eye-Tracking Voxel Environment Sculptor (EVES), that incorporates eye-tracking as the designed actuator, extending our visual sense as an active design generator. The eye-tracking data garnered from the designer when interacting in EVES is directly utilized as an input within a modelling virtual environment to manipulate and sculpt voxels. We have tested how eye-tracking offers novel possibilities as a Human-Computer Interface within the Virtual Reality Aided Design (VRAD) realm and presents such methodology's potentials.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Computer-Aided Architectural Design. Design Imperatives
Subtitle of host publication	The Future is Now - 19th International Conference, CAAD Futures 2021, Selected Papers
Editors	David Gerber, Evangelos Pantazis, Biayna Bogosian, Alicia Nahmad, Constantinos Miltiadis
Place of Publication	Singapore
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages	528-537
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	978-981-19-1280-1
ISBN (Print)	9789811912795
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1280-1_32
Publication status	Published - 25 May 2022
Externally published	Yes
Event	19th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Futures, CAAD Futures 2021 - Virtual, Online Duration: 16 Jul 2021 → 18 Jul 2021

Publication series

Name	Communications in Computer and Information Science
Volume	1465 CCIS
ISSN (Print)	1865-0929
ISSN (Electronic)	1865-0937

Conference

Conference	19th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Futures, CAAD Futures 2021
City	Virtual, Online
Period	16/07/21 → 18/07/21

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities
SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities

Keywords

Eye-tracking
Human-Computer Interface (HCI)
Modelling
Sketching
Virtual reality

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Wells, C., Schnabel, M. A., Brown, A., & Moleta, T. (2022). Designing with Your Eyes: Active and Two-Way Employment of Our Visual Sense. In D. Gerber, E. Pantazis, B. Bogosian, A. Nahmad, & C. Miltiadis (Eds.), Computer-Aided Architectural Design. Design Imperatives: The Future is Now - 19th International Conference, CAAD Futures 2021, Selected Papers (pp. 528-537). (Communications in Computer and Information Science; Vol. 1465 CCIS). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1280-1_32

Wells, Cameron ; Schnabel, Marc Aurel ; Brown, Andre et al. / Designing with Your Eyes : Active and Two-Way Employment of Our Visual Sense. Computer-Aided Architectural Design. Design Imperatives: The Future is Now - 19th International Conference, CAAD Futures 2021, Selected Papers. editor / David Gerber ; Evangelos Pantazis ; Biayna Bogosian ; Alicia Nahmad ; Constantinos Miltiadis. Singapore : Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2022. pp. 528-537 (Communications in Computer and Information Science).

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Wells, C, Schnabel, MA, Brown, A & Moleta, T 2022, Designing with Your Eyes: Active and Two-Way Employment of Our Visual Sense. in D Gerber, E Pantazis, B Bogosian, A Nahmad & C Miltiadis (eds), Computer-Aided Architectural Design. Design Imperatives: The Future is Now - 19th International Conference, CAAD Futures 2021, Selected Papers. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 1465 CCIS, Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, Singapore, pp. 528-537, 19th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Futures, CAAD Futures 2021, Virtual, Online, 16/07/21. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1280-1_32

Designing with Your Eyes: Active and Two-Way Employment of Our Visual Sense. / Wells, Cameron; Schnabel, Marc Aurel; Brown, Andre et al.
Computer-Aided Architectural Design. Design Imperatives: The Future is Now - 19th International Conference, CAAD Futures 2021, Selected Papers. ed. / David Gerber; Evangelos Pantazis; Biayna Bogosian; Alicia Nahmad; Constantinos Miltiadis. Singapore: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2022. p. 528-537 (Communications in Computer and Information Science; Vol. 1465 CCIS).

Research output: Chapter in Book or Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Proceeding › peer-review

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Wells C, Schnabel MA, Brown A, Moleta T. Designing with Your Eyes: Active and Two-Way Employment of Our Visual Sense. In Gerber D, Pantazis E, Bogosian B, Nahmad A, Miltiadis C, editors, Computer-Aided Architectural Design. Design Imperatives: The Future is Now - 19th International Conference, CAAD Futures 2021, Selected Papers. Singapore: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. 2022. p. 528-537. (Communications in Computer and Information Science). doi: 10.1007/978-981-19-1280-1_32

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