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  • Eyes on Independence: The Smartbox and Smart Eye Collaboration

    Every year 1.3 million people around the world die in road crashes according to the World Health Organization. More than 20% of these fatalities are estimated to be alcohol-related – a global problem that demands comprehensive solutions.

    Driven by technical enhancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and global regulatory efforts Driver Monitoring Systems (DMS) are fast becoming a leading human-centered automotive safety system. Initially focused on detecting distracted and drowsy driving, the foundations of these systems may offer keys to detecting and mitigating driver impairment.

    Today the prevalent measure to determine alcohol intoxication – Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) – is a standard that was developed decades ago. Critical research is being conducted by government bodies, the automotive industry, technology companies and academia to determine more effective approaches. This event will explore the state of alcohol intoxication research and opportunities to leverage evolving DMS technology to enhance road safety.

    What is the state of the art in impairment detection? Can we do more to mitigate harm with advanced technologies that exist today? What are the technological, societal and political challenges that will need to be overcome? When we will get there?

    Other topics discussed:

    • Why are car manufacturers hesitant to deploy advanced technologies to detect alcohol intoxication?
    • Where is intoxication research focused today?
    • What new sensors and technologies look most promising?
    • Is it feasible to detect intoxication with in-cabin cameras and AI-based algorithms?
    • How should the industry collect drunk driving data to fuel machine learning?
    • Are there other impairments that can be detected through synergistic approaches?
    • What limits are there to the implementation of life saving technology?

     

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  • The Power of Eye Tracking: Understanding Human Behavior in a New Light

  • Eye Tracking & Biosensors in Mental Health Research

  • How Remote Head and Eye Tracking Unlocks Naturalistic Data Collection for Researchers

  • Why You Should Integrate Eye Tracking into Your Product: the Process & Benefits

  • Shopping for an Eye Tracker? 5 Examples of Smart Eye Innovation with Product Integration

  • How Eye Tracking Helps Improve Road Safety by Fighting Driver Distraction with SeeReal

  • SmartBox: Barrier-Free Communication Tools for Those with Disabilities

  • Lumin-i: How Eye Tracking Turns Communication Barriers Into Bridges

    Just today, Smart Eye announced our partnership with assistive technology developer Smartbox. Apart from resulting in an incredible product and opening up a fascinating new market for Smart Eye, I can’t help but feel a little extra proud of this collaboration because of what it represents: the power of communication.

    At its best, communication gives us the opportunity to solve almost any problem, grow meaningful relationships to other people, or come up with the next great idea that can change the world. As social beings, communication is the basis of all human interaction and one of the most important tools we have for influencing our own lives.

    So, when our ability to communicate is limited, it can limit almost every aspect of life. Just like good communication can open doors, people who struggle with communication can feel like those same doors remain closed to them.

    My hope and belief is that this collaboration between Smart Eye and Smartbox, resulting in Lumin-i, could be the key to a freer, more independent life for many of those people.

    Lumin-i is the first eye tracker for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) developed with Smart Eye technology.

    Lumin-i is a communication aid that uses Smart Eye’s AI-based eye tracking to help people with limited mobility express their thoughts, needs, ideas and feelings through their eye movements. By removing the barriers of communication, Lumin-i helps people with disabilities live more independently.

    Up until now, there has been very little competition on the market for assistive technologies, resulting in fewer options for users. By partnering with Smartbox and developing Lumin-i, we are able to offer a high-quality alternative, giving people the chance to choose the communication aid that suits their individual needs best.

    This is a market that is new to Smart Eye, but the idea of using eye tracking to help people communicate more freely goes all the way back to the founding of the company.

    Solmaz Shahmehr, VP & Head of Research Instruments at Smart Eye.

    On a Sunday morning in 1999, Mats Krantz called up his son, Martin, to tell him about a dream he had just had. Mats Krantz’s wife suffered from a frozen shoulder, causing her to experience terrible pain when using a computer mouse. But in the dream, she was able to operate the computer using just her eye movements. A few months later, Mats and Martin Krantz founded Smart Eye – setting out to make the dream a reality.

    Since then, using technology to facilitate communication is part of Smart Eye’s DNA. This is part of the reason why I’m so excited about our partnership with Smartbox: through this collaboration, we have an opportunity to really contribute to improving people’s quality of life. By helping people communicate more freely, we are continuing down the path laid out when Smart Eye was founded, over 20 years ago. And this is just the beginning of that journey.

    Solmaz Shahmehr is VP & Head of Research Instruments at Smart Eye, leading provider of AI-based eye tracking systems to research institutes all over the world.

  • Smart Eye partners with Smartbox on eye tracker that gives people with disabilities a voice

    Joint solution provides assistive communication technology to help people with complex access needs communicate using just their eye movements.

     

    MALVERN, UK & GOTHENBURG, Sweden – July 19, 2021 – Global Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) provider Smartbox Assistive Technology, and Smart Eye, a leader in AI-based eye tracking solutions for the automotive, aerospace, neuroscience, and research sectors, today announce a new collaboration. Together they have developed Lumin-i, a unique and advanced eye tracking product that will enable AAC users with complex and limited mobility to have a voice.

    The collaboration combines Smartbox’s 15 years of experience in designing and delivering software, content, and hardware to a wide range of global AAC users and Smart Eye’s extensive expertise in designing and delivering eye tracking systems that respond to human behaviour. This collaboration means that Lumin-i is now offered as part of Smartbox’s market leading Grid Pad AAC devices*.

    Lumin-i features Smart Eye’s robust eye tracking algorithms, offering a high level of accuracy and enabling a very responsive solution. The technology has also been developed to work outdoors, allowing Lumin-i users to access their communication device anywhere.

    It takes just 25 ms (milliseconds) for Lumin-i to respond to your gaze, capturing 60 frames per second with a gaze recovery time of just 17 ms. Lumin-i also has a large track box measuring 35 X 30 X 65 cm– which allows for lots of head movement – giving users with complex mobility needs a reliable and powerful solution for communication and independence.

    Dougal Hawes, MD at Smartbox Assistive Technology said, “For the past 15 years eye gaze has been a crucial technology to Smartbox and our users. This collaboration with Smart Eye was born out of our desire to bring the world’s best eye tracking performance to our sector, giving people a highly accurate eye tracker that will work both indoors and outdoors.”

    He continued, “We always strive to offer our users the best possible solution and with Lumin-i we are able to provide a robust and quick-to-respond eye gaze solution that is made possible by Smart Eye’s years of experience in delivering quality eye tracking devices to some interesting customers including NASA, Airbus, Audi, Harvard University and Georgia Tech.”

    Solmaz Shahmehr, Vice President & Head of Research Instruments at Smart Eye also commented, “We are very excited to be stepping into a market that is new to us, but at the same time resonates so well with Smart Eye’s core mission. Our goal has always been to bridge the gap between human and machine, and this partnership is an important step on the way. Through Lumin-i, our technology is giving people with disabilities a tool to communicate without barriers.”

    Lumin-i is being launched globally on Monday 19th July 2021 and more information can be found on the Smartbox website: www.thinksmartbox.com/product/lumin-i.

    * Smartbox communication aids are powered by Grid – market leading text and symbol-based software which offers users a voice, environmental control, and access to a range of grid sets and accessible apps supporting children and adults with complex disability and communication needs.

    About Smartbox Assistive Technology
    Smartbox Assistive Technology is based from its two UK offices [Malvern & Bristol] and from its offices in the US & Ireland. It also supports other global customers through an extensive Global Partner network, delivering AAC assistive communication solutions alongside training, support & repairs. Smartbox is celebrating its 15th anniversary throughout 2021. For more information visit www.thinksmartbox.com

    About Smart Eye
    For over 20 years Smart Eye has developed artificial intelligence (AI) in the form of eye tracking technology that understands, supports and predicts a person’s intentions and actions. By carefully studying eye, facial and head movement, their technology can draw conclusions about a person’s awareness and mental state. Their eye tracking technology is used in the next generation of cars, commercial vehicles and providing new insights for research within aerospace, aviation, neuroscience and more. Smart Eye’s solutions are used around the world by more than 800 partners and customers, including the US Air Force, NASA, BMW, Audi, Boeing, Volvo, GM, and Harvard University. For more information visit www.smarteye.ai

    Press contact
    Amanda Woollaston, Head of Marketing [Smartbox Assistive Technology]
    amanda.woollaston@thinksmartbox.com / M: 07808 197520

    Gabi Zijderveld, Chief Marketing Officer [Smart Eye]
    gabi.zijderveld@smarteye.ai / O: +1 781.996.3037