A software environment for a human-aware ambient agent supporting attention-demanding tasks

This paper presents a software environment for a human-aware ambient agent providing support for a human performing an attention-demanding task. The agent obtains human attention-awareness by use of a dynamical model of human attention, gaze sensoring by an eye-tracker, and information about features of the objects in the environment. It has been implemented in a component-based, event-driven manner within the Adobe® Flex® environment, thereby also integrating the Tobii ® eye-tracker. It has been applied in a setup for a task where the human has to identify enemies and allies, and eliminate the enemies.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: PROCEDIA
• Authors: Zulfiqar A. Memon, Rogier Oorburg, Jan Treur, Muhammad Umair, Michael de Vos
• Keywords: Adobe® Flex® Environment, Human, Human-aware Ambient Agent, PROCEDIA 2010