“Painting with the Eyes”: Sensory Perception Flux Time-Integrated on the Physical World

摘要

We introduce the concept of a “veillogram”, a measurement of sensing or perception of physical objects as if those objects were like photographic film, to register the degree of sensing over time. A time-integrated sensory field is tracked in 3D space. Human visual gaze on an object, for example, produces a veillogram which is a detailed sensory map, rather than merely following the gaze of the eyes as one single point. This 3D sensory measurement space, was transformed and rendered onto physical objects, to indicate sensory attention integrated (accumulated) over an object's surface. Applications can include the assessment of control panels in aircraft cockpits, automobiles, and industrial control rooms, by measuring the visual attention directed at parts of a display or control panel, in real-time as information appears, and as a human attempts to control using the information available. The purpose is to then better design those interfaces according to real-world measured attention, as a full veillogram, rather than by merely tracking gaze angle. Similarly, for medical or commercial environments, behavioural studies, or user-interface design applications, a veillogram can create a richly detailed mapping of visual attention as a time-varying, spatially-varying function.