PSJ: Let's talk about how the study originated. Was it in response to injuries or safety issues or trends?Mike: One of our contacts at the foundry was interested in looking at new ways to gauge current performance and improve training and safety protocol. He came across eye tracking and, from there, we got in touch. They had been aware of eye tracking but not in this context of professional research. We started by giving them a demonstration of the technology and talking through the types of applications it could have, and ultimately they decided to have us come down to their foundry and do a research study with a sample of their employees while they were on the floor performing work tasks. In terms of the early stages of a project like this, our goal was just to capture natural behavior. In this stage we don't have a set of predetermined tasks that we have these workers complete. Our goal is to capture what happens during the day-to-day as workers are doing their jobs.
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