BLUE EYES TECHNOLOGY

Introduction-

Emotions are so valuable that it is an inevitable part and without emotions the world becomes numb. So, by giving some emotional values to devices we can make them more effective. A computer that understands our emotions and abilities and responds accordingly will be the best partner for us. Both, together as partners can bring new innovations in the present world. A technology that had been aroused which sense human emotions and a feeling through gadgets is named as “BLUE EYES” technology. The basic idea behind this technology is to give the computer the human power. This technology uses sensing technology to identify the users actions and to extract key information.

What is Blue Eyes Technology?

Blue stands for bluetooth and eyes stands for the eye movements through which emotional information is obtained. Bluetooth indicates the wireless communication.Blue eyes Technology makes a computer to understand and sense human feelings and behaviour and also enables the computer to react according to the sensed emotional levels. The general and basic idea of this technology is very simple and it is that the human beings are going to make a computer that has the power of sensitivity and the sensitivity is the power of human beings too.

Blue Eyes is a technology conducted by the research team of IBM at its Almaden Research Center(ARC) in San Jose,California since 1997. Researchers attempts to add even more capabilities to the computers that allow the computers to interact like humans, recognize their presence, talks, and listen, and even guess the feelings of the user . The detection of the human expressions is becoming very challenging in machine learning .

An example for explaining about the blue eyes technology is as follows, at the time of your going to bed your mobile device automatically says you the good night and we have such amazing features in the blue eyes technology. In a car that has an effective computing system, has the ability to recognize whether the driver is drowsy, and advice the driver to stop the car and take rest.Thus the  computer has the ability to  interact  with  you  by  understanding  your facial expressions, speech etc and is  made  to  see  and  feel  the emotions.

AIMS-

• To design smarter devices
• To create devices with emotional intelligence
• To create computational devices perceptual abilities.

SYSTEM OVERVIEW-

The total system of the blue eyes applied science consists of two main parts and they are as follows:

• Data acquisition unit (DAU)
• Central system unit(CSU)

Mobile measuring device or Data Acquisition Unit(DAU) of Blue Eyes technology-

The DAU used in the Blue Eyes technology is the mobile component  of the system.The main function of DAU is to gather the physiological information from sensors and forward to the CSU for processing and verification purposes.

The blue tooth module ,which is integrated with the mobile device(DAU),provide a wireless interface between the Central System Unit(CSU) and the user or operator having the sensors.PIN codes and ID cards are assigned to the entire operator’s for authentication purposes.

DAU incorporates various hardware modules like system-core Bluetooth section,Atmel 89C52 microcontroller,EEPROM,Beeper,LCD display(HD44780),LED indicator,voltage level monitors and 6 AA batteries.

Central system Unit (CSU) of Blue Eyes technology-

The CSU mainly contains codec (PCM Codec commonly used for voice information transmission) and a wireless blue tooth module. This CSU section is integrated to a personal computer using USB, parallel and serial cable. The mini-jack socket is used for audio data accessing. The program containing the operators personal ID is amalgamating to the personal computer through the serial and power ports. The microcontroller (Atmel- 89C2051) inside the unit handles the I2C EEPROM- programming and UART transmission.

Technologies used-

• Emotional sensors for hands
• Emotional sensors for eyes
• Emotional sensors for voice

For hands:

The devices used as emotional sensors for the hands are as follows:

• Emotion mouse
• Sentic mouse

Emotion mouse:

It includes a set of sensors along with the infrared detectors and temperature sensitive chips. The data obtained from emotion mouse is about the behavior and physiological information, the behavior includes the actions like a movement of the mouse, frequency of clicking the button and the pressure of fingers when a person clicks the button. The physiological information includes the heart rate, a temperature of the skin.




Sentic mouse:

Sentic mouse is sensing equipment which is used to measure a user’s emotional valence response.It varies from positive(pleasure,attraction and liking) to negative(displeasure,avoidance,  disliking).An ordinary mouse, which was augmented with a pressure sensor, was used to collect the sentic data . This process is thus used to assess the emotional valence response of a user.  


           
   

For eyes:

The expression glasses:

Expression Glass is an alternative for the usually available machine vision face or eye recognition methods.The expression glasses are a wearable machine that permits the user to see a graphical view of the wearer’s facial expression.By analyzing pattern recognition methods and facial muscle variations, the glass senses and identifies the expressions such as interest or confusion of the user. The prototype used for this glass uses piezoelectric sensors.



The MAGIC pointing:

MAGIC stands for Manual Acquisition with Gaze Initiated Cursor or Manual and Gaze Input Cascaded (MAGIC) pointing. The selection and pointing of the cursor is primarily controlled by manual means but also guided by a gaze tracking mechanism and is commonly known as MAGIC Pointing.



Eye- tracking(SUITOR):

The Simple User Interest Tracker is revolutionary approaches towards the design of machine having the ability to maintain an intimate relationship between the humans and the computers. The SUITOR continuously analyzes the user that where his eye focus on the personal computer screen. The SUITOR has the ability to determining the topic of interest of the user and also according to this it can able to deliver the appropriate data to a handheld device.


For voice:

Here,the input words are scanned and matched against internally stored words.It is also an emotional sensor in which the user speaks to the computer through microphone.

APPLICATIONS:

In retailing record and interpret customer movements

• In automobile industry
• In video games
• Power station
• Flight control centres
• Physiological conditional monitoring

The day is very near, that this Blue Eyes technology will advance its way towards your house hold devices and makes you lazier.  Even though this makes the people lazy, it is  going to be a  technological.