COGAIN Symposium:
Communication by Gaze Interaction

Virtual Event, May 27th, 2021

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Important dates

Short papers due : Feb 20, 2021
Position papers due: Mar 16, 2021
Notifications: Mar 15, 2021
Camera-ready: April 6, 2021


General co-chairs
Carolin Hainke
Thies Pfeiffer
Sarah Yeo

Program co-chairs
Ken Pfeuffer
Augusto Esteves
COGAIN symposium program overview
  • Accepted papers: 6 short papers, 1 position paper
  • Date: 27 May 2021
  • Time: 10:00-12:00 (Central European Summer Time)
  • Format: Video + optional Live Presentation
  • Invited Presentation: TBD
10.00 - 10.05 General introduction
10.05 - 10.35 Interaction Track (Session chair: Augusto Esteves)

EyeTell: Tablet-based Calibration-free Eye-typing using Smooth-pursuit movements (ACM DL)

  • Tanya Bafna DTU Management, Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Per Bækgaard Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Section for Cognitive Systems, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
  • John Paulin Paulin Hansen Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark

Did you Understand this? Leveraging Gaze Behavior to Assess Questionnaire Comprehension (ACM DL)

  • Radiah Rivu Bundeswehr University Munich, Neubiberg, Germany
  • Yasmeen Abdrabou Bundeswehr University Munich, Munich, Bayern, Germany
  • Yomna Abdelrahman Bundeswehr University Munich, Munich, Germany
  • Ken Pfeuffer Bundeswehr University Munich, Munich, Germany
  • Dagmar Kern GESIS - Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne, Germany
  • Cornelia Neuert GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne, Germany
  • Dr. Daniel Buschek Department of Computer Science, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
  • Florian Alt Bundeswehr University Munich, Munich, Germany

Multi-user Gaze-based Interaction Techniques on Collaborative Touchscreens (ACM DL)

  • Ken Pfeuffer Bundeswehr University Munich, Munich, Germany
  • Jason Alexander Computer Science, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom
  • Hans Gellersen Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
10.35 - 11.05 Eye Inferences Track (Session chair: Ken Pfeuffer)

Combining Oculo-motor Indices to Measure Cognitive Load of Synthetic Speech in Noisy Listening Conditions (ACM DL)

  • Mateusz Dubiel Strathclyde University, Glasgow, United Kingdom
  • Minoru Nakayama Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
  • Xin Wang National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan

Using Deep Learning to Predict Saccade Direction from Brain Activity (ACM DL)

  • Martyna Beata Płomecka Methods of Plasticity Reasearch, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
  • Ard Kastrati Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Feasibility of evaluating temporal changes in cognitive load factors using ocular features (ACM DL)

  • Tomomi Okano Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
  • Minoru Nakayama Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
11.05 - 11.15 Break
11.15 - 11.20 COGAIN introduction (Marco Porta)
11.20 Position Paper

Gaze Interactive and Attention Aware Low Vision Aids as Future Smart Glasses (ACM DL)

  • Fiona Bríd Mulvey Cognitive Systems, Mathematics and Computer Science, Denmark Technical University, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Marek Mikitovic Cognitive Systems, Dept. of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Denmark Technical University, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
  • Mateusz Sadowski Cognitive Systems, Dept. of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Denmark Technical University, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
  • Baosheng Hou Cognitive Systems, Dept. of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Denmark Technical University, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
  • Nils David Rasamoel Cognitive Systems, Dept. of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Denmark Technical University, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
  • John Paulin Paulin Hansen Department of Technology, Management and Economics, Denmark Technical University, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
  • Per Bækgaard Cognitive Systems, Dept. of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Denmark Technical University, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
11.30 Discussion
  • Q&A of talk
  • future work & mobile gaze
  • future of COGAIN