The DaVinci Group: a second modern Ophthalmotrope.

A group of undergraduate students at the University of Connecticut Biomedical Engineering Program has formed a "club" in order to more fully understand and educate themselves in modeling anatomical processes. This group is called the DaVinci Robot or DaVinci Group. Experiments to mechanically model the six extraocular muscles of the eye have been performed, each meeting little success.

Infra-red radiant intensity exposure safety study for the Eye Tracker.

With any device that is used to record or evaluate biosignals, it is in the inventor's interest to determine how that device withstands a rigorous examination in regards to its inherent safety during use. For this, a Risk Management (Hazard) Analysis is a useful exercise. With this in mind, the most probable hazard concerning the Eye Tracker System (a device used to measure saccadic eye movements utilizing Reflective Differencing of Infra-Red light) is the exposure effect to the human eye caused by the Radiant Intensity of the IR emitters mounted on the Head Mounted Transducer.

The Eye Tracker System--a system to measure and record saccadic eye movements.

The Eye Tracker System, built at the University of Connecticut at Storrs in the Biomedical Instrumentation Lab, consists of three separate and distinct units brought together as a whole system to measure saccades. A seven row, eleven columned array of LEDs mounted on five degree centers along a concave surface provides targeting for the Eye Tracker System wherein the subject eye follows a pattern of illuminated LEDs as determined by the experimenter. The target system is digitally driven by serial inputs from the Main Command System.

The operating version of the Eye Tracker, a system to measure saccadic eye movements.

The operating version of the Eye Tracker, a transducer and system using a technique to bounce infrared light off the eye to measure saccadic eye movements in any X-Y position is presented in this paper. Discussed is the method of reading and analyzing eye movement data using a 24-channel infrared optoelectronic array and computer algorithms that utilize a linear regression model to interpret and determine eye location, the 24-channels used to ensure accurate reading of eye position. Accuracy is also maintained by a signal processing system that attenuates incident light as well as ambient light.