BLUE EYES TECHNOLOGY

ABSTRACT:

This paper outlines the system overview, design features besides the hardware part. The computers sense and understand human behavior and feelings and react in proper ways. This paper brings out the features of this technology. The various methods of giving inputs to the system, design challenges, and emerging trends.

The application of this technology in areas like automobiles, surveillance systems, etc. are also dealt with.

INTRODUCTION:

Blue eye is a technology conducted by the research team of IBM at its Almaden Research Center(ARC), in San Jose, California since 1997. Blue eye is the technology to make computers sense and understand human behavior and feelings and react in the proper ways. The blue eye technology aims at creating computational machines that have the perceptual and sensory ability like those of human beings. It uses a non-obtrusive sensing method, employing the most modern video cameras and microphones to identify the user’s actions through the use of imparted sensory abilities. The machine can understand what a user wants, where he is looking at, and even realize his physical or emotional states.

CONCEPT:

THE TERM BLUE EYE: BLUE in the term stands for Bluetooth, which enables reliable wireless communication. EYE, because the eye movement enables us to obtain a lot of interesting and important information. BASIC IDEA: In general, the blue eye technology aims at (1) creating interactive computer,(2) computer acts as a partner (and friend) to the user, (3 )realizes his physical or emotional states,(4) gives computer human power, (4) provide technical means for monitoring and recording operator physiological conditions, (5) Design smarter devices, (6) Create devices with emotional intelligence, (7) Create computational devices with perceptual abilities.

BLUE EYE TECHNOLOGY:

The complex solution for human-operator monitoring, Visual attention monitoring, Physiological condition, Operator’s position detection, Wireless data acquisition using Bluetooth, Real-time user-defined alarm triggering, Recorded data playback, Gesture recognition, Facial recognition, Eye tracking, Speech recognition, Doesn’t predict nor interfere with operator’s thoughts, Cannot force directly the operator to work.

SYSTEM OVERVIEW:

The Blue eye system provides technical means for monitoring and recording the operator’s basic physiological parameters. The most important parameter is saccadic activity ( Saccade is a rapid eye jump to a new location assigned by the conscious attention process), which enables the system to monitor the status of the operator’s visual attention along with head acceleration. Thus, on the grounds of the plethysmographic signal taken from the forehead skin surface, the system computes heartbeat rate and blood oxygenation. The blue eye system checks above parameters against abnormal (e.g. a low level of blood oxygenation or a high pulse rate) or undesirable (e.g. a longer period of lowered visual attention) values and triggers user-defined alarms when necessary. Quite often in an emergency situation operators speak to themselves expressing their surprise or stating verbally the problem.

Therefore, the operator’s voice, physiological parameters, and an overall view of the operating room are recorded. This helps to reconstruct the course of operators’ work and provides data for long-term analysis. This system consists of a mobile measuring device and a central analytical system. The mobile device is integrated with Bluetooth module providing a wireless interface between sensors worn by the operator and the central unit. ID cards assigned to each of the operators and adequate user profiles on the central unit side provide necessary data personalization so different people can use a single mobile device.

DESIGN FEATURES:

It has a personal area network for linking all the operators and the supervising system. It has two major units-1) DAU (data acquisition unit ),(2) CSU (central system unit ). Bluetooth Technology is provided for the coordination and communication between the two units.

(1) Process Of Giving Sensing Capacity: Blue Eyes utilizes many sensor mechanisms, which are equivalent to the ears, eyes, and other sensory organs that human beings used to express emotions and recognize each other. Blue Eyes uses voice recognition software, cameras, and biometric sensors to understand and respond to the emotional levels of humans.

(2) Detecting Human Emotions: Blue eyes uses Emotion Mouse, Simple User Interest Tracker (SUITER), and Artificial Intelligence Speech Recognition for detection.

ADVANTAGES

Blue Eyes system provides technical means for monitoring and recording human operators physiological condition:

Visual attention monitoring (eye motility analysis)
Physiological condition monitoring (pulse rate, blood oxygenation), operator’s position detection (standing, lying)
Physiological data, the operator’s voice, an overall view of the control room recording recorded data playback.

Blue eyes technology can be applied in every working environment requiring a permanent operator’s attention. At power plant control rooms, Flight control stations.

CONCLUSION: Blue eyes technology provides a convenient technique, that simplifies life by supporting more elegance and provision in computing devices. The future of technology is advancing with such inventions that will make a big leap in the history of technologies. The communication between the human brain and the computer will lead to lots of advancements.