GEISTHuman-Centered Information Systems · TU Clausthal

Research topic

Smart eyewear and eye tracking

Glasses that sense gaze, blinks and facial muscles to read attention and reading behaviour.

Research · 4

Projects

  • J!NS MEME academic prototype with sensor wiring on a glass table

    ActiveKeio · TU Clausthal

    Augmented Perception

    Smart glasses and wearables as a sensing and actuation platform that sits directly at the human senses.

    GEIST lab

  • Overview figure of cognitive activity recognition with eyewear computing

    ActiveKeio · TU Clausthal

    Cognitive Augmentation

    Wearable sensing that captures reading, attention and gaze synchrony, applied to cognitive health and dementia prevention.

    Kai Kunze

  • Public talk on eyewear computing at Miraikan, Tokyo, 2017

    ArchiveKeio · GEIST

    Eyewear Computing

    Smart glasses as cognitive assistants: sensing cognitive states and cognition-aware interaction, from Google Glass and J!NS MEME to the Apple Vision Pro.

    Kai Kunze

  • Head-mounted display with an eye-tracking camera add-on

    ArchiveKeio · GEIST

    Open Eyewear

    An open eyewear platform to quantify social and cognitive functions in real life and to design interventions that improve behaviour (JST PRESTO).

    GEIST lab

Publications · 14

Recent publications

All 14 publications

  1. Eye-Tracking for Cognitive Well-Being: Balancing Detection and Ethical Feedback

    Christopher Changmok Kim, Matthias Hoppe, Kai Kunze

    ETRA 2025conference

  2. Using Smart Eyewear to Sense Electrodermal Activity While Reading

    Christopher Changmok Kim, Jiawen Han, Dingding Zheng, George Chernyshov, Kai Kunze

    UbiComp/ISWC Adj. 2021workshop

  3. Cognitive load assessment from facial temperature using smart eyewear

    Fangqing Zhengren, George Chernyshov, Dingding Zheng, Kai Kunze

    UbiComp/ISWC Adj. 2019workshop

  4. Continuous alertness assessments: Using EOG glasses to unobtrusively monitor fatigue levels In-The-Wild

    Benjamin Tag, Andrew W Vargo, Aman Gupta, George Chernyshov, Kai Kunze, Tilman Dingler

    CHI 2019conference

  5. Blink as you sync: uncovering eye and nod synchrony in conversation using wearable sensing

    Aman Gupta, Finn L Strivens, Benjamin Tag, Kai Kunze, Jamie A Ward

    ISWC 2019conference

  6. Itchy Nose: Discreet Gesture Interaction using EOG Sensors in Smart Eyewear

    Juyoung Lee, Hui-Shyong Yeo, Murtaza Dhuliawala, Jedidiah Akano, Junichi Shimizu, Thad Starner, Aaron Quigley, Woontack Woo, Kai Kunze

    ISWC 2017conference

  7. Facial thermography for attention tracking on smart eyewear: An initial study

    Benjamin Tag, Ryan Mannschreck, Kazunori Sugiura, George Chernyshov, Naohisa Ohta, Kai Kunze

    CHI EA 2017extended abstract

  8. Evaluation of Facial Expression Recognition by a Smart Eyewear for Facial Direction Changes, Repeatability, and Positional Drift

    Katsutoshi Masai, Kai Kunze, Yuta Sugiura, Masa Ogata, Masahiko Inami, Maki Sugimoto

    TiiS 2017journal

  9. Eyewear Computing – Augmenting the Human with Head-mounted Wearable Assistants (Dagstuhl Seminar 16042)

    Andreas Bulling, Ozan Cakmakci, Kai Kunze, James M. Rehg

    Dagstuhl 2016other

  10. The wordometer 2.0: estimating the number of words you read in real life using commercial EOG glasses

    Shoya Ishimaru, Kai Kunze, Koichi Kise, Andreas Dengel

    UbiComp/ISWC Adj. 2016workshop

Theses · 1

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