Top 5 Uses for Eye Tracking Technology
July 14, 2010
The human eye is a complex organ with various functions, behaviors, and movement patterns. We are very dependent on our eyes for acquiring details about our surroundings and taking in constant information and stimuli to be processed by our brains. Eye tracking technology can be applied in countless ways to harness the power of visual activities. Here are the Top 5 uses for eye tracking technology, three of which Eye-Com Corporation specializes in: Read more
Eye-Com Research Validates PERCLOS for Drowsiness Detection: Part 5
March 8, 2010
This is the final in a series of five posts detailing the research conducted by Eye-Com Corporation in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Department of Transportation. Read more
Eye-Com Research Validates PERCLOS for Drowsiness Detection: Part 4
March 1, 2010
This is the fourth in a series of five posts detailing the research conducted by Eye-Com Corporation in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Department of Transportation. Read more
Eye-Com Research Validates PERCLOS for Drowsiness Detection: Part 3
February 22, 2010
This is the third in a series of five posts detailing the research conducted by Eye-Com Corporation in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Department of Transportation. Read more
Eye-Com Research Validates PERCLOS for Drowsiness Detection: Part 2
February 15, 2010
This is the second of a series of five posts detailing research on the PERCLOS measure as an indicator of drowsiness conducted by Eye-Com Corporation in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Department of Transportation. Read more
Eye-Com Research Validates PERCLOS for Drowsiness Detection: Part 1
February 9, 2010
This is the first in a series of five posts detailing the research conducted by Eye-Com Corporation in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Department of Transportation. Read more
Article Featuring Eye-Com Published on Online News Sites
January 4, 2010
Barb Ruppert, a science and technology writer for the Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC) in Fort Detrick, MD, recently wrote an exciting article featuring Eye-Com Corporation entitled “In the Blink of an Eye.” The article highlights the drowsiness detection capabilities of the Eye-Com Biosensor Communicator and Controller and provides an outlook on future development of the technology through collaboration with TATRC, the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, and the University of California, Santa Barbara. The article was published on several online news sites including Virtual Medical Worlds Monthly, The Point newsletter for the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, and Military Medical/CBRN Technology. Click here to read to full article.
Eye-Com Seeks Commercialization Opportunities at the National Small Business Innovation Research Conference
November 2, 2009
Eye-Com Corporation (ECC), a recipient of a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II grant, attended the 2009 National SBIR Beyond Phase II Conference in Orlando, FL from September 21 to September 24, 2009. The conference gave current SBIR Phase II companies the opportunity to present their technologies to key acquisition personnel from the government and high tech industry, providing connections to commercial markets. Eye-Com showcased the Eye-Com™ 7 (EC7) wireless, wearable eye-tracking device to corporations that may be interested in the use of the EC7 system for defense and other related projects. ECC representatives met with companies and agencies such as Boeing, NASA, U.S. Navy, and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) about possible project opportunities.
Eye-Com Joins International Effort to Reduce Driver Distraction and Inattention
November 2, 2009
Driver distraction and inattention are factors affecting driver safety around the world. Eye-Com Corporation (ECC) recently presented its Eye-Com™ 7 (EC7) wireless, wearable eye-tracking device at the first International Conference on Driver Distraction and Inattention in Göteborg, Sweden as a solution to the safety issue of drivers operating vehicles or machinery while drowsy or fatigued. The eye-tracking technology of the EC7 can be used to distinguish certain ocular measurements that signal drowsiness and fatigue and can set off an alarm when these conditions are detected.
Eye-Com™ Goes to the Netherlands with a Transportation Safety Solution
April 15, 2009
Eye-Com Corporation (ECC) representatives traveled halfway across the globe to The Hague, Netherlands to attend the 21st World Congress of the International Traffic Medicine Association. The 3 day Congress in April, 2009, entitled “Safe Mobility for Young and Old,” focused on young and older drivers, crash and injury studies, and driving simulators in traffic medicine, sleep and medicinal drugs. The Eye-Com™ Biosensor, Communicator and Controller (Eye-Com™) was presented as a drowsiness and fatigue detection system with applications in transportation safety. ECC met with European Transportation Medicine representatives about possible collaboration and introduction of the Eye-Com™ technology in the European market.
Eye-Com Corporation Joins in the Effort to Manage Fatigue on the Road
March 30, 2009
The International Conference on Fatigue Management in Transportation Operations: A Framework for Progress took place March 24-26, 2009 and was hosted by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Human Factors Coordinating Committee under its Operator Fatigue Management Program. Eye-Com Corporation (ECC) representatives were among the over 275 researchers, practitioners, managers, labor organizations, and operators with focus on every mode of transportation that attended the conference in Boston, MA. ECC presented its Eye-Com™ Biosensor, Communicator and Controller (Eye-Com™) device as a drowsiness and fatigue detection system. Long-distance drivers, pilots, train conductors and other heavy equipment and vehicle operators are at risk for accidents and injury related to the problem of drowsy driving or the operation of any vehicle or equipment while impaired by fatigue. The Eye-Com™ can be used to identify oculometric signs of drowsiness and alert a driver, helping them get safely from point A to point B.
Eye-Com Corporation presents its eye-tracking technology at the 88th Transportation Research Board Meeting
January 20, 2009
Eye-Com Corporation (ECC) was present at the 88th annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board which took place in Washington, D.C. January 11-15, 2009. ECC representatives were just a few of the over 10,000 transportation professionals from around the globe who attended the 5 day event. The attendees were a combination of policy makers, practitioners, researchers, and representatives of government, industry, and academic institutions. The meeting consisted of more than 3,000 presentations with topics focused on the meeting’s theme “Transportation, Energy, and Climate Change.”
Dr. Willam C. Torch Interviewed Channel 8 News
November 30, 2005
Dr Bill Torch was interviewed by John Tyson of Reno, NV TV Channel 8 News to demonstrate the Eye-Com™ Drive Simulator and to discuss the potential for systems integration of Eye-Com™ technology to add significant safety performance value to operators of trucks, buses, and other transportation vehicles that travel over public highways.
Eye-Com awarded U.S. Department Of Transportation Congressional Initiative
October 1, 2005
Eye-Com Corporation and the Washoe Sleep Disorders Center was awarded U.S. Department Of Transportation Congressional Initiative Appropriation to study vehicle operator performance to detect driver drowsiness and fatigue.
Eye-Com Corporation and the Washoe Sleep Disorders Center have been awarded funds from the U.S. Department Of Transportation Congressional Initiative Appropriation for the research and development of eye-tracking and monitoring devices to detect driver drowsiness and fatigue in the Eye-Com™ Drive and Flight Simulator.
Eye-Com Installs Drive Simulator
May 15, 2005
Eye-Com Corporation and the Washoe Sleep Disorders Center installs Drive Simulator for first test validation of Eye-Com 6 Wearable Safety Monitoring System. Eye-Com Corporation and the Washoe Sleep Disorders Center successfully installed its first Drive Simulator at its Reno, NV facility for validating the Eye-Com-6 Eye Monitoring System– an advanced oculometric monitoring system to be used for identifying driver drowsiness and developing technologies to significantly improve operator safety.
Eye-Com Awarded U.S. Army SBIR Phase I
December 14, 2004
Eye-Com Corporation and the Washoe Sleep Disorders Center awarded U.S. Army SBIR Phase Ito develop a Soldier-Mounted Eye Monitoring System for the Measurement of Ocular Fatigue and Drowsiness-related Performance Failure. Eye-Com Corporation and the Washoe Sleep Disorders Center have been awarded a U.S. Army SBIR Phase I contract to develop the EYE-COM-7 & 8 Biosensor, Communicator and, EC7 & 8 are Soldier-Mounted Eye Monitoring Systems for the Measurement of Drowsiness, Sleep-Onset, Inattention and Other Variable State of Consciousness, and for Non-Verbal Communication and Control.
