Blue Eye Technology

(Human Operator Monitoring System )

N SAIKRISHNA(07BK1A0437)

Electronics & Communication Engineering,

St.Peter’s Engineering College,Near Kompally, Medchal Mandal
Email:saikrishna.nerella@gmai
Contact:9912479966

Abstract

Animal survival depends on highly laboratory for basic research. The

developed sensory abilities. Likewise,
human cognition depends on highly
developed abilities to perceive,
integrate, and interpret visual,
auditory, and touch information.
Without a doubt, computers would be
much more powerful if they had even
a small fraction of the perceptual
ability of animals or humans. Adding
such perceptual abilities to computers
would enable computers and humans
to work together more as partners.
Toward this end, the Blue Eyes
project aims at creating
computational devices with the sort of
perceptual abilities that people take
for granted.
Thus Blue eyes is the
technology to make computers sense
and understand human behavior and
feelings and react in the proportion
INTROUDUCTION
The U.S. computer giant,IBM has been
conducting research on the Blue Eyes
technology at its Almaden Research
Center (ARC) in San Jose, Calif., since
1997. The ARC is IBM's main
primary objective of the research is to
give a computer the ability of the human
being to assess a situation by using the
senses of sight, hearing and touch.
Animal survival depends on highly
developed sensory abilities. Likewise,
human cognition depends on highly
developed abilities to perceive, integrate,
and interpret visual, auditory, and touch
information. Without a doubt, computers
would be much more powerful if they
had even a small fraction of the
perceptual ability of animals or humans.
Adding such perceptual abilities to
computers would enable computers and
humans to work together more as
partners. Toward this end, the Blue Eyes
project aims at creating computational
devices with the sort of perceptual
abilities that people take for granted.
Thus Blue eyes is the technology to
make computers sense and understand
human behavior and feelings and react i
Aim
1)To design smarter devices
2)To create devices with emotional
intelligence
3)To create computational devices with
perceptual abilities
The idea of giving computers personality
or, more accurately, emotional
intelligence" may seem creepy, but
technologists say such machines would
offer important advantages.
De-spite their lightning speed and
awesome powers of computation, today's
PCs are essentially deaf, dumb, and
blind. They can't see you, they can't hear
you, and they certainly don't care a whit
how you feel. Every computer user
knows the frustration of nonsensical
error messages, buggy software, and
abrupt system crashes. We might berate
the computer as if it were an unruly
child, but, of course, the machine can't
respond. "It's ironic that people feel like
dummies in front of their computers,
when in fact the computer is the
dummy," says Rosalind Picard, a
computer science professor at the MIT
MediaLabinCambridge.
A computer endowed with emotional
intelligence, on the other hand, could
recognize when its operator is feeling
angry or frustrated and try to respond in
an appropriate fashion. Such a computer
might slow down or replay a tutorial
program for a confused student, or
recognize when a designer is burned out
and suggest he take a break. It could
even play a recording of Beethoven's
"Moonlight Sonata" if it sensed anxiety
or serve up a rousing Springsteen
anthem if it detected lethargy. The
possible applications of "emotion
technology" extend far beyond the
desktop. A car equipped with an
affective computing system could
recognize when a driver is feeling
drowsy and ad-vise her to pull over, or it
might sense when a stressed-out motorist
is about to explode and warn him to slow
down and cool off.
These machines have got their own
personality and this personality depends
u Tracks used
Our emotional changes are
mostly reflected in our heart pulse
rate,reathing rate ,facial expressions
,eye movements ,voice etc.Hence these
are the parameters on which lue
technology is being developed.
Making computers see and feel
Blue Eyes uses sensing technology to
identify a user's actions and to extract
key information. This information is
then analyzed to determine the user's
physical, emotional, or informational
state, which in turn can be used to help
make the user more productive by
performing expected actions or by
providing expected information.
Beyond making computers more
responsive to people's feelings,
researchers say there is another
compelling reason for giving ma-chines
emotional intelligence. Contrary to the
common wisdom that emotions
contribute to irrational behavior, studies
have shown that feelings actually play a
vital role in logical thought and decision-
making. Emotionally impaired people
often find it difficult to make decisions
because they fail to recognize the subtle
clues and signals--does this make me
feel happy or sad, excited or bored?--that
help direct healthy thought processes. It
stands to reason, therefore, that
computers that can emulate human
emotions are more likely to behave
rationally, in a manner we can
understand. Emotions are like the
weather.We only pay attention to them
when there is a sudden outburst, like a
tornado, but in fact they are constantly
operating in the background, helping to
monitor and guide our day-to-day
activities.
Picard, who is also the author of the
groundbreaking book Affective
Computing, argues that computers
should operate under the same principle.
"They have tremendous mathematical
abilities, but when it comes to
interacting with people, they are
autistic," she says. "If we want
computers to be genuinely intelligent
and interact naturally with us, we must
give them the ability to recognize,
understand, and even to behave' and
express emotions." Imagine the benefit
of a computer that could remember that
a particular Internet search had resulted
in a frustrating and futile exploration of
cyberspace. Next time, it might modify
its investigation to improve the chances
of success when a similar request is
made.
Affective Computing
The process of making emotional
computers with sensing abilities is
known as affective computing.The steps
used in this are:
1)Giving sensing abilities
2)Detecting human emotions
3)Respond properly
The first step, researchers say, is to give
ma-chines the equivalent of the eyes,
ears, and other sensory organs that
humans use to recognize and express
emotion. To that end, computer
scientists are exploring a variety of
mechanisms including voice-recognition
software that can discern not only what
is being said but the tone in which it is
said; cameras that can track subtle facial
expressions, eye movements, and hand
gestures; and biometric sensors that can
measure body temperature, blood
pressure, muscle tension, and other
physiological signals associated with
emotion.
In the second step, the computers
have to detect even the minor variations
of our moods.For eg,a person may hit
the keyboard very fastly either in the
happy mood or in the angry mood.
In the third step the computers have
to react in accordance with the emotional
states.
Various methods of accomplishing
affective computing are :
1) Affect detection:
This is the method of detecting
our emotional states from the
expressions on our face.Algorithms
amenale to real time implementation that
extract information from facial
expressions and head gestures are being
explored.Most of the information is
extractewd from the position of the eye
rows and the corners of the mouth.
2)MAGIC pointing:
MAGIC stands for Manual
Acquisition with Gaze Tracking
Technology. a computer with this
technology could move the
cursor by following the direction of the
user's eyes.
This type of technology will enable the
computer to
automatically transmit information
related to the screen
that the user is gazing at. Also, it will
enable the
computer to determine, from the user's
expression, if he or
she understood the information on the
screen, before
automatically deciding to proceed to the
next program.
The user pointing is still done by the
hand,ut the cursor always appears at the
right position as if by “MAGIC”.By
marrying input technology and eye
tracking ,we get “MAGIC pointing”.

3)SUITOR:
SUITOR stands for “Simple User
Interface Tracker”.It implements the
method for putting computational
devices in touch with their user’s
changing moods.It is mostly used in we
ased applications.By watching what we
page the user is currently rowsing,the
SUITOR can find additional information
on that topic.The key is that the user
simply interacts with the computer as
usual and the computer infers user
interest based on what it sees the user
do.
4)EMOTION MOUSE:
This is the mouse emedded with
sensors that can sense the physiological
attributes such as temperature,ody
prewssure,pulse rate, and touching style,
etc.The computer can determine the
user’s emotional states by a single
touch.IBM is still oerforming research
on this mouse and will be availale in the
market within the next two or three
years.The expected accuracy is 75%.
Jazz Multisensor
Blue Eyes enaled devices
Some of the blue Eyes enabled
devices are discussed below:
1)POD:
The first blue Eye
enabled mass production device was
POD ,the car manufactured y
TOYOTA.It could keep the driver alert
and active.It could tell the driver to go
slow if he is driving too fastly and it
could pull over the driver when he feels
drowsy.Also it could hear the driver
some sort of interesting music when he
is getting bored.
2)PONG:
IBM released a
robot designed for demonstrating the
new technology.The Blue Eyes robot is
equipped with a computer capable of
analyzing a person's glances and other
forms of expressions of feelings, before
automatically determining the next type
of action. IBM has released a robot
called PONG, which is equipped with
the Blue Eyes technology. PONG is
capable of
perceiving the person standing in front
of it, smiles when the person calls his
name, and expresses loneliness when it
loses sight of the person.
IBM is showing this robot to the
public at the company's
exhibition called "IBM Fair 2000" at the
Japan Convention
Center (Makuhari Messe) in Chiba
prefecture, March 1-3.
3)SECURE PAD:
This is an electronic badge that
can identify the wearer and track his
movements and activities with an array
of sensors. The device was designed for
a major health-care provider to track the
activities of doctors and other personnel
at large medical facilities. It knows who
you are and where you are, and it has a
pretty good idea of what you are doing
and when you are doing it. Although that
may sound ominous, the device will
ultimately benefit patients by enhancing
the security and accountability of
medical facilities. For example, the
device will know who has accessed a
drug locker and what drugs were
removed. It will also allow doctors to
access confidential medical information
without carrying around paper charts,
which can be misplaced or read by
unauthorized personnel. When a doctor
wearing the Secure Pad enters a patient's
room, the patient's medical records will
automatically appear on a wall monitor
when the doctor looks at it. When he
looks away, or another person enters the
room, the records will disappear.
Another advantage of Secure Pad is that
it's interchangeable; when a wearer
removes the badge from her body, the
device automatically deactivates, its
slate wiped clean until the next person
puts it on
SOFTWARE and
HARDWARE
Blue Eyes software is called
“agent” which analyzes and modifies the
mother program, according to the user’s
needs and moods.The user modifies the
mother program whenever the user
requests or hardware finds that the user
is changing his moods.
For eg, in a we browsing ,if a
particular search is found to e failure ,the
agent might improve the searching y
changing the searching key words so as
to get the desired results.
Hardware used is dedicated
hardware.Usually emedded devices are
used.For eg, a pc camera may drain the
processing ailities of the system and can
not e used. The embedded devices have
their own processing capabilities and can
function on their own to achieve specific
purposes.
 The Blue eyes technology ensures
a convenient way of simplifying the life
by providing more delicate and user
friendly facilities in computing devices.
The gap between the electronic and
physical world will be reduced.The
computers can be run by using the
CURRENT SCENARIO implicit commands instead of the
explicit commands.
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Future applications of this

technology is limitless –from designing
cars and developing presentations to
interactive entertainment and
advertising.Also it may become very
common in our household devices also .

For eg:

A blue eyes enabled TV set

would become active when we look in
its directions.Voice commands could
then tune your favourite channel and
adjust the volume.

CONCLUSION