ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Thoughtful gratitude fills my heart, as I take a step back in time to thank the people involved in the successful completion of this task, and without whose continuous guidance and support, it would have been scarcely possible for me to accomplish the same.

Hearty thanks to our principal, Prof. Dr.T.Srinivasan, for his kind support and the encouragement showered. Im grateful to Mr. Mahesh P.K, head of the department, ECE, MITE, for his timely support and assistance, in the form of time and resources to complete the daunting task ahead of me.

Special thanks to my Seminar guide Mr. Mahesh P.K, Assistant professor, department of ECE, and the Seminar Coordinator, Mr.Anjan Gudigar, department of ECE, for their patience, valuable help and timely support.

ABSTRACT
Human error is still one of the most frequent causes of catastrophe and ecological disasters. The main reason is that the monitoring systems concern only the state of the process whereas human contribution to the process is left unsupervised. Since the control instruments are automated to a large extent, a human operator becomes a passive observer of the supervised system, which results in weariness and vigilance drop. Thus, he may not notice important changes of indications causing financial or ecological consequences and a threat to human life. Blue Eyes technology aims at creating computational machines with perceptual and sensory abilities like those of human beings. The basic idea behind this technology is to give computer human power. Blue Eyes system is thus a versatile system which can be modified to cater to the working environment. Blue eye system can be applied in every working environment which requires operator's permanent attention. Blue eyes system provides technical means for monitoring and recording human operator's physiological condition. Blue eyes technology is a project aiming to be a means of stress reliever driven by the advanced technology of studying the facial expressions for judgment of intensity of stress handled. In totality blue eyes aims at adding perceptual abilities which would end up in a healthy stress free environment and can be applied in every working environment requiring permanent operators.

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CONTENTS
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION..1

1.1 OVERVIEW OF BLUE EYE TECHNOLOGY...1

CHAPTER 2 EMOTION AND COMPUTING......4 2.1THEORY PAUL EKMANS FACIAL EXPRESSION........5 2.2 RESULT.5 CHAPTER 3 TYPES OF EMOTIONAL SENSORS.7 3.1EMOTIONAL MOUSE..8 3.2 MANUAL AND GAZE INPUT CASCADED (MAGIC) POINTING..9 3.3 EYE TRACKING11 3.4 EXPRESSION GLASSES...12 3.5 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SPEECH RECOGNITION13 3.6 THE SIMPLE USER INTERST TRACKER (SUITOR)15 Chapter 4 BLUE EYE SYSTEM..16 4.1 DATA ACQUISITION UNIT.....17 4.2 CENTRAL SYSTEM UNIT (CSU).....19 CONCLUSION........................23 REFERENCES........................24 iii

LIST OF FIGURES
1. EMOTION MOUSE.8 2. BASIC EMOTIONAL FACIAL EXPRESSION.8 3. CONSERVATIVE MAGIC POINTING TECHNIQUE..9 4. LIBERAL MAGIC POINTING TECHNIQUE...10 5. BRIGHT AND DARK PUPIL IMAGES.11 6. EXPRESSION GLASS....13 7. OVERALL SYSTEM...17 8. DAU HARDWARE DIAGRAM.18

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