A Look into Predictive Eye Tracking Tools
When you think of eye tracking you probably envision a clunky piece of hardware and the need to spend hours in a research lab with participants. Predictive eye tracking is a newer approach to understanding visual attention by aggregating data from a large database of eye gaze data and using AI to anticipate where users are most likely to look. This article discusses how this technology works, the pros and cons compared with traditional eye tracking, and highlights a predictive eye tracking tool called Attention Insight that is based on deep learning and trained on 30,800 images from eye tracking studies.
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Today we all use artificial intelligence in our daily lives, whether it’s through Alexa or your next pizza being delivered in a self-driving car. How does this affect our jobs in UX and where do we begin to understand its impact? Get a roundup of six great reads.
Designing conversations for bots and AI
By now, most designers have either interacted with a chatbot or been asked to create one for a client. We obsess over the details once our bot has come into being. More than anything, we emphasize to ourselves — and to our clients — how hard we work to create a human-like experience. More often than not, we begin anthropomorphizing it after we’ve named the thing and started writing its script.
AI Needs UX Designers, Too
Artificial intelligence in “smart” technology is only getting smarter, but its application still needs to focus on the user. UX Booth senior editor Kristina Bjoran explores why AI still has a ways to go before we have the smart homes of our dreams.