Paper at LCEA 09 Symposium

A paper has been accepted at the LCEA09 Symposium to be held at 19th January 2009:

Richard Stevens, Tony Renshaw, David Raybould and Paul Marchant (Leeds Metropolitan University). Are you seeing what I’m seeing? Eye tracking for the evaluation of dynamic scenes.

It describes the 2006/7 multimedia exhibition, ‘Repossessed’, during which over 400 members of the public watched scenes from Hitchcock’s ‘Vertigo’. The paper describes the basis of an approach to the use of eye tracking techniques, visualisations, and metrics to measure the influence of directorial techniques on film viewers’ experience.

Project with India

Recently, Reinhold Behringer has been invited to join the project "Voices from Gujarati and Yorkshire Rivers", and he just returned from a travel to Gujarat (India) where this project was conducted in partnership with the Sardar Patel University in Vallabh Vidyanagar. The aim of this project is to "create awareness of climate change with means of arts", and the specific focus was on "linking" rivers from two local regions in the global context: Yorkshire and Gujarat. The poject involved the organisation of workshops for painting, poetry, and translation. Reinhold's role was to provide technology: recording video, audio, and GPS tracks for creating later a multimedia experience. This resulting documentation is intended to be created by L3 students as part of their final project work. In the course of the project, artists created works based on their relation with rivers. The artefacts will be collected abd may be published in book form at a later time. A development blog highlights the progress and timeline of this project.

During this visit, links have been made to the following institutions:
Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar
Gujarat Vidyapith, Ahmadabad
Inter-Human Education and Charitable Trust (IET), Surat.