John R. and Pamela Egan Professor
of Computer Science
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James
Gips John R. and Pamela Egan Professor of Computer Science |
Spring semester 2012 I am on sabbatical. Mostly I plan to stay in the Boston area. I am happy to meet with you. The best way to set up an appointment or just to ask a question is by email.
Fall semester 2012 I am scheduled to teach MI157 Programming for Management MWF 11 and MI031 Computers in Management (Honors) MWF 1.
Here are the recent student evaluations for MI157: the Spring 2011 MI 157 student evaluations, the Spring 2010 MI 157 student evaluations, the Spring 2009 student evaluations, the Spring 2008 student evaluations, the Spring 2007 student evaluations, and the Spring 2006 student evaluations.
Here are the recent student evaluations for MI031: the Fall 2011 MI031 student evaluations, the Fall 2010 MI 031 student evaluations, the Fall 2009 student evaluations, the Fall 2008 student evaluations, the Fall 2007 student evaluations, and the Fall 2006 student evaluations.
KSL TV newscast on EagleEyes (December 2011)
Los Angeles Times on Multitasking paper (May 2011)
BYUtv television show on EagleEyes (March 2011)
Boston Globe interview on Camera Mouse (March 2011)
scientificamerican.com coverage of Red Bull paper (February 2011)
The Economist article on Fast-Forwarding paper (November 2008)
My research interests generally are in human-computer interaction, especially in developing technology to allow people with profound disabilites to interact with the computer. For a more detailed description of this work see the eagleeyes.org BC website and the cameramouse.org website.
The original technology we developed is called EagleEyes. EagleEyes allows a person to control the computer by moving his eyes or head. The computer senses eye and head movements through electrodes placed around the eyes. The Opportunity Foundation of America, based in Salt Lake City, is working with us to build and distribute the miniaturized EagleEyes boxes originally developed by Bill Ames of the Computer Science Department. Here is the April 2012 Newsletter, the July 2011 Newsletter, and the January 2011 Newsletter of the Opportunity Foundation. Debbie Inkley, the Executive Director and Founder of the Opportunity Foundation of America, sent me this automated slide show of "EagleEyes kids".
The second major technology we developed is Camera Mouse, a program that uses a webcam to allow control of the computer by tracking small movements of the head. Camera Mouse is available for free download at cameramouse.org. Here is a video on Camera Mouse. Camera Mouse use has increased dramatically since the free program was made available in June 2007 with downloads now running at over 1,000 per day. Over 800,000 copies of Camera Mouse have been downloaded.
A free onscreen keyboard program for use with Camera Mouse is available at midastouch.org. A free two-level onscreen keyboard program for use with Camera Mouse and EagleEyes is available at staggeredspeech.org. The Staggered Speech program is based on the spelling method developed by Rick Hoyt and his brother.
Many children and young adults who are non-speaking and have complex disabilities are using EagleEyes and Camera Mouse on a regular basis at the Boston College Campus School and at other schools and facilities and in their homes. For an overview of our work see the website at eagleeyesproject.org.
For the past seven years Adam Brasel, of the Marketing Department, and I have been examining aspects of new media using the eye tracker and other experimental techniques. Adam and I have formed the Marketing Interfaces Lab at BC.
Spring semester 2004 I was a Visiting Professor at the Media Lab at MIT, where I did some work on design.
My educational background is in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. Previous research has been quite eclectic, and has included founding work on shape grammars and on algorithmic aesthetics and on grammatical inference and on ethical robots. Please see the bottom of this page for some early works now available for free download.
The EagleEyes Project was named a 2006 Technology Award Laureate by the Tech Museum of San Jose. "The Tech Awards program inspires global engagement in applying technology to humanity's most pressing problems by recognizing the best of those who are utilizing innovative technology solutions to address the most urgent critical issues facing our planet. People all over the world are profoundly improving the human condition in the areas of education, equality, environment, health, and economic development through the use of technology. It is the goal of The Tech Awards to showcase their compelling stories and reward their brilliant accomplishments."
Technology Award Laureates were invited down to New York to help ring the closing bell at NASDAQ in August 2008. [ photo ] [ photo ]
Undergraduates have been integrally involved in all phases of the work on EagleEyes and Camera Mouse and technologies that assist people with severe disabilites. Many students have made sustained, vital contributions. Several undergraduates are co-authors of papers listed below. Students usually begin not by developing technologies but rather by working directly with the children who will use the technologies.
"When the heart is touched by direct experience, the mind may be challenged to change. Personal involvement with innocent suffering, with the injustice others suffer, is the catalyst for solidarity which then gives rise to intellectual inquiry and moral reflection. Students, in the course of their formation, must let the gritty reality of this world into their lives, so they can learn to feel it, think about it critically, respond to its suffering and engage it constructively." -- Rev. Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, S.J., Former Superior General of the Society of Jesus.
S.
A. Brasel and J. Gips, "Media
Multitasking Behavior: Concurrent Television and Computer
Usage", Cyberpsychology,
Behavior, and Social Networking,
Vol. 14, No. 9, September 2011,
pp. 527-534. [ UPI
] [ The
Chronicle of Higher Education
] [ Science
Daily ] [ Los
Angeles Times ] [ Daily Mail
]
J. Gips, Mastering Excel 2010: A Problem-Solving Approach, Pearson, 2011. Second Edition published in December 2011.
S. A. Brasel and J. Gips, "Red Bull ‘Gives You Wings’ For Better or Worse: A Double-Edged Impact of Brand Exposure on Performance”, Journal of Consumer Psychology, Vol. 21, Issue 1, January 2011, pp. 57-64. [ scientificamerican.com ] [ redpepper ] [ Science Daily ]
S. A. Brasel and J. Gips, "Points of View: Where Do We Look When We Watch TV?", Perception, Vol. 37, No. 12, December 2008, pp. 1890-1894.
J. Magee, M. Betke, J. Gips, M. Scott, and B. Waber, "A Human-Computer Interface Using Symmetry Between Eyes to Detect Gaze Direction", IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics--Part A: Systems and Humans, Vol. 18, No. 8, November 2008, pp. 1248-1261.
S. A. Brasel and J. Gips, "Breaking Through Fast-Forwarding: Brand Information and Visual Attention", Journal of Marketing, Vol. 72, November 2008, pp. 31-48. [ Reuters ] [ PopSci.com ] [ Science Daily ] [ The New York Times ] [ The Economist ] [ Wired ]
J. Gips, Mastering Excel 2007: A Problem-Solving Approach, Pearson, 2007. The latest edition is the Seventh Edition, published in December 2010.
J. Gips, "EagleEyes Technology for People with Profound Disabilities", keynote address, The 18th International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics, Baden-Baden, 2006.
P. DiMattia and J. Gips, "EagleEyes: Technologies for Non-Verbal Persons", Handbook of Human Development for Health Care Professionals, K. Thies and J. Travers (eds.), Jones and Bartlett, 2005, pp. 429-448.
J. Gips, "Ethical Robots: Do We Have 30 Years to Get Them Right?", abstract in Cognitive, Emotive and Ethical Aspects of Decision Making in Humans and in AI, Volume IV, The International Institute for Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics, 2005.
S. Tai, J. Gips, and P. DiMattia, "Enabling Non-Verbal People with Quadriplegia to Interact through the Internet Using only Eye and Head Movement", Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction, 2005.
A. Gips, P. DiMattia, and J. Gips, "The Effect of Assistive Technology on Educational Costs: Two Case Studies", in K. Miesenberger, J. Klaus, W. Zagler, D. Burger (eds.), Computers Helping People with Special Needs, Springer, 2004, pp. 206-213.
K. Grauman, M. Betke, J. Lombardi, J. Gips, and G. Bradski, "Communication via Eye Blinks and Eyebrow Raises: Video-Based Human-Computer Interfaces", Universal Access in the Information Society, 2(4), pp. 359-373, November 2003.
P. DiMattia and J. Gips, "Experiencing the Regular Classroom Curriculum by Use of an Access Technology", presented at the International Conference on Computers and Advanced Technology in Education, Rhodes, 2003.
H. Larson and J. Gips, "A Web Browser for People with Quadriplegia", presented at the International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Crete, 2003. Published in Universal Access in HCI: Inclusive Design in the Information Society, C. Stephanidis (ed.), Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003, pp. 226-230.
J. Gips, "Ramona's Painting", about a painting by an elephant of an elephant, May 2003. Also, see ramonaspainting.com.
C. Fagiani, M. Betke, and J. Gips, "Evaluation of Tracking Methods for Human-Computer Interaction", IEEE Workshop on Applications in Computer Vision (WACV 2002), Orlando, 2002.
R. L. Cloud, M. Betke, and J. Gips, "Experiments with a Camera-Based Human-Computer Interface System", 7th ERCIM Workshop on User Interfaces for All (UI4ALL 2002), Paris, 2002.
M. Betke, J. Gips, and P. Fleming, "The Camera Mouse: Visual Tracking of Body Features to Provide Computer Access for People with Severe Disabilities", IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, Vol.10, No. 1, 2002, pp. 1-10.
J. Gips, P. DiMattia, and M. Betke, "Collaborative Development of New Access Technology and Communication Software", abstract in Proceedings of International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication Conference (ISAAC 2002), Odense, 2002.
J. Gips, P. DiMattia, M. Curran, D. Lees, and M. Gates, "Accessing Internet Courses by Eye Movement and Head Movement", in Computers Helping People with Special Needs, K. Miesenberger, J. Klaus, and W. Zagler (eds.) Springer-Verlag, 2002.
J. Gips, Mastering Excel: A Problem Solving Approach (Second Edition), John Wiley, 2002.
K. Grauman, M. Betke, J. Gips, and G. Bradski, "Communication via EyeBlinks -- Detection and Duration Analysis in Real Time", IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2001), 2001.
J. Gips, M. Betke, and P. DiMattia, "Early Experiences Using Visual Tracking for Computer Access by People with Profound Physical Disabilities", in Universal Access in HCI: Towards an Information Society for All,C. Stephanidis (ed.), Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001.
P. DiMattia, F. X. Curran, and J. Gips, An Eye Control Teaching Device for Students Without Language Expressive Capacity: EagleEyes, Edwin Mellen Press, 2001.
J. Gips and J. Gips, "A Computer Program Based on Rick Hoyt's Spelling Method for People with Profound Special Needs", Proceedings International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2000), Karlsruhe, pp. 245-250.
J. Gips, M. Betke, and P. Fleming, "The Camera Mouse: Preliminary Investigation of Automated Visual Tracking for Computer Access", Proceedings of RESNA 2000, RESNA Press, pp. 98-100.
J. Gips, "Teaching People with Profound Disabilities to Control the Computer with Eye Movements: The EagleEyes Project", Irish Workshop on Eye-Tracking, Trinity College Dublin, 2000.
J. Gips, "Computer Implementation of Shape Grammars", invited paper, Workshop on Shape Computation, MIT, 1999.
J. Gips, P. DiMattia, and F. X. Curran, "Progress with EagleEyes", Proceedings of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication Conference (ISAAC '98), Dublin, 1998, pp. 458-459.
J. Gips, "On Building Intelligence into EagleEyes", in Lecture Notes in AI: Assistive Technology and Artificial Intelligence, V. Mittal, H.A. Yanco, J. Aronis, R. Simpson (eds.), Springer Verlag, 1998.
J. J. Tecce, J. Gips, P. Olivieri, L. Pok, M. Consiglio, "Eye movement control of computer functions", International Journal of Psychophysiology, vol. 29, no. 3, 1998, pp. 319-325.
H. A. Yanco and J. Gips, "Driver Performance Using Single Switch Scanning with a Powered Wheelchair: Robotic Assisted Control versus Traditional Control", Proceedings of the Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America Annual Conference (RESNA '98), RESNA Press, 1998, pp. 298-300.
J. Gips and P. DiMattia, "EagleEyes", invited presentation, U. S. Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication conference (USSAAC '97), Baltimore, August 1997.
H. A. Yanco and J. Gips. "Preliminary investigation of a semi-autonomous robotic wheelchair directed through electrodes", Proceedings of the Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America Annual Conference (RESNA '97), RESNA Press, 1997, pp. 414-416.
J. Gips, Mastering Excel: A Problem-Solving Approach, John Wiley, 1997.
J. Gips, "Towards an Intelligent Interface for EagleEyes", presented at the AAAI Symposium on Developing Assistive Technologies for People with Disabilities, MIT, November 1996.
J. Gips, P. DiMattia, F. X. Curran, and P. Olivieri, "Using EagleEyes -- an Electrodes Based Device for Controlling the Computer with Your Eyes -- to Help People with Special Needs", in Interdisciplinary Aspects on Computers Helping People with Special Needs, J. Klaus, E.Auff, W. Kremser, W. Zagler (eds.), R. Oldenbourg, Vienna, 1996.
J. Gips and P. Olivieri, "EagleEyes: An Eye Control System for Persons with Disabilities", presented at the Eleventh International Conference on Technology and Persons with Disabilities, Los Angeles, March 1996.
J. Gips, "Bringing the City into the Home: Trends in On-Line Services", Proceedings of the IFIP International Conference on Home-Oriented Informatics, Telematics and Automation (HOIT '94), Copenhagen, June 1994.
R. Keyes, P. Olivieri, and J. Gips, “Making the Grade: An Interactive Video Case for Teaching Ethics”, National Educational Computing Conference, Boston, 1994.
J. Gips, "Information Technology: Trends and Ethical Issues", in Corporate Ethics, T. A. Mathias (ed.), Allied Publishers, Bombay, 1994.
J. Gips and D. Green, "Trying to KISS* with the Robot Vacuum Cleaner (*Keep It Simple, Stupid)", Proceedings of the AAAI Symposium on Instantiating Real-World Agents, Raleigh NC, October 1993.
J. Gips, P. Olivieri, and J. J. Tecce, "Direct Control of the Computer through Electrodes Placed Around the Eyes", in Human-Computer Interaction: Applications and Case Studies, M. J. Smith and G. Salvendy (eds.), Elsevier, 1993, pp. 630-635.
J. Gips, "On Algorithmic Aesthetics", invited paper, Symposium on Determinacy and Indeterminacy in Complex Systems Behavior, Wharton, Philadelphia, March 1992.
J. Gips, "Towards the Ethical Robot", presented at The Second International Workshop on Human and Machine Cognition: Android Epistemology, Pensacola, Florida, May 1991. Published in Android Epistemology, K. Ford, C. Glymour and P. Hayes (eds.), MIT Press, 1995. Republished in Machine Ethics, M. Anderson and S. L. Anderson (eds.), Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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