MRI: Acquisition of Eye Tracking Equipment to Support Behavioral Research at LTU

在主要研究仪器的支持下，Franco Delogu博士和他的合作者将获得一个集成的眼动追踪系统，用于收集和分析劳伦斯理工大学（LTU）行为科学研究和研究培训的综合眼动数据集。该仪器允许开发大量的实验，包括获取生物行为数据，这些数据对于理解与眼球运动相关的许多认知过程至关重要。在LTU，它将推动几个不同学科的研究活动和研究培训，并将被用作连接学科、系、学院和机构的技术桥梁。该仪器将直接支持的学科包括心理学、计算机科学、生物医学工程、文学研究、市场营销和建筑学。仪器收购的更广泛的智力和社会效益包括提高学习经验的教育计划，底特律地铁的社区参与和行业合作伙伴关系。具体而言，研究人员将把眼动追踪方法整合到LTU、社区学院和位于底特律大都市社会经济不利地区的高中的课程研究体验（CRE）开发中。LTU的CRE计划目前是一项系统的（涉及30多门课程）干预措施，旨在提高非传统学生在STEM中的保留率。拓展活动还将包括在LTU企业孵化器中使用眼动追踪方法，为涉及下一代机器人、触觉和其他量化自我主题消费设备的小公司提供服务。眼动追踪系统由一个基于屏幕的眼动仪（Tobii Spectrum 600）、一个可穿戴的眼动仪（Tobii Pro Glasses 2）和专用的眼动分析软件（Tobii Pro Lab）组成。这三个组成部分的整合将允许在LTU建立一个灵活和完整的眼动追踪研究设施。在眼动追踪系统的支持下，包括大学所有四个学院的人员和学生以及外部合作者在内的各种合作研究项目将得到发展。这些项目包括：1。推进空间认知中多感官相互作用的研究2. 通过提供视觉艺术、文学和诗歌的实验美学的定量数据，促进对艺术体验的理解；3. 了解日常生活活动中的生物力学因素；4. 改进物联网研究中的控制界面设计，重点研究室内照明和主动遮阳控制作为瞳孔大小的函数；5. 在网联和自动驾驶汽车研究中，提供驾驶员对自动驾驶汽车信任程度影响因素的状态评估和理解；5. 情绪对广告视觉注意的影响6. 健康相关标签视觉扫描分析7. 提高对现实世界购物场景中人类行为的认识；8. 公共空间寻路系统的优化所有项目都包括多学科团队合作，旨在促进LTU各部门和学院之间以及LTU与其他机构之间的合作，以提高LTU在获得校外资金和科学传播方面的竞争力。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

With Major Research Instrumentation support, Dr. Franco Delogu and his collaborators will acquire an integrated eye tracking system to collect and analyze comprehensive sets of eye-movement data for research and research training in the behavioral sciences at Lawrence Technological University (LTU), a primarily undergraduate institution in the Metro Detroit area. The instrumentation allows developing a large set of experiments involving the acquisition of bio behavioral data crucial for understanding a number of cognitive processes connected to eye movements. At LTU, it will advance research activities and research training in several different disciplines, and will be used as a technological bridge able to link disciplines, departments, colleges, and institutions. Disciplines that will be directly supported by the instrumentation include psychology, computer science, biomedical engineering, literary studies, marketing, and architecture. The broader intellectual and societal benefits of the instrumentation acquisition include educational initiatives that advance learning experience, community engagement in metro Detroit and industry partnership. Specifically, the investigators will integrate eye-tracking methods in the development of Course-Based Research Experience (CRE) in classes within LTU, at community colleges and high schools located in socio-economic disadvantaged areas in metro Detroit. The CRE initiative at LTU is currently adopted as a systemic (more than 30 courses involved) intervention for increasing retention rates of non-traditional students in STEM. Outreach activities will also include the use of eye tracking methods in the LTU business incubator for small companies involved in the next generation robotics, haptics, and other quantified-self themed consumer devices.The eye tracking system consists of a screen-based eye tracker (Tobii Spectrum 600), a wearable eye tracker (Tobii Pro Glasses 2), and dedicated software for eye movement analysis (Tobii Pro Lab). The integration of the three components will allow the establishment of a flexible and complete eye tracking research facility at LTU. A wide variety of collaborative research projects involving personnel and students from all the four colleges of the university and external collaborators will be developed with the support of the eye-tracking system. Such projects include: 1. Advancing research in the field of multisensory interactions in spatial cognition; 2. Advancing the understanding of the experience of art by providing quantitative data in the experimental aesthetics of visual art, literature and poetry; 3. Understanding biomechanics factors in daily living activities; 4. Improving control interface design in internet of things research with a specific focus on the study of indoor lighting and active shading control as a function of eye pupil size; 5. Providing drivers' state assessment and understanding factors influencing the level of trust in autonomous cars in connected and autonomous vehicles research; 5. Understanding the influence of emotions on visual attention in advertisement; 6. Analyzing visual scanning of health-related labels; 7. Advancing knowledge on human behavior in real-world shopping scenarios; 8. Optimization of wayfinding systems in public spaces; All projects include multidisciplinary teamwork which is intended to nurture collaboration within LTU departments and colleges and between LTU and other institutions to increase competitiveness in extramural funding acquisition and scientific dissemination.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.