Does This Headline Know You're Reading It? 140
An anonymous reader writes "Not yet, but it could. German artificial intelligence researchers are combining JavaScript with eye-tracking hardware to create 'text 2.0,' which 'infers user intentions.' Unimportant words also fade out while you're skimming the text, and a bookmark automatically appears if you glance away. It can pronounce the words you're reading, and reading certain words can trigger the appearance of footnotes or even translations, biographies, definitions, and sound effects or animations, almost like the truly interactive books in Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age. 'With the help of an eye tracker, Text 2.0 follows your progress and presents effects just in time,' the researchers explain in a video. Meanwhile, DFKI has already created a free 'Processing Easy Eye Tracker plugin' (or PEEP) to manipulate windows with what they call 'gaze-controlled tab expose,' while there's speculation similar technology may be adopted by Apple. Apple has already purchased Tobii's eye-tracking hardware, and 'Whether these are for internal research only or for a future product, Apple is characteristically not saying.'"
In Soviet Russia Webpage reads you? (Score:5, Insightful)
Really? Is this really what we wanted??
This will do wonders ... (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:In Soviet Russia Webpage reads you? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:This will do wonders ... (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:In Soviet Russia Webpage reads you? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Serious invasion of privacy (Score:3, Insightful)
And for an added bonus, the software can tell you if you're a breasts man or a legs man.
As Seinfeld once said: why would I want legs? I've got legs.
YAY! more possibilities to accidentally do things! (Score:4, Insightful)
that's why I think this (and also the mind-writing from earlier today) are very very VERY bad ideas... some people might find them exciting, but that's just people who haven't been around computers long enough to know all the (similar) bad ideas, that already existed before...
Re:In Soviet Russia Webpage reads you? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:In Soviet Russia Webpage reads you? (Score:3, Insightful)