MIT Develops Crowdsourced Eye Tracking For Phones Androidheadlines.com

The magic of data from multiple sources, known as crowdsourcing, extends to apps, artificial intelligence and large-scale studies, among other advancements. While sourcing input data and sourcing processing grunt are two completely different endeavors, the kernel of an idea at the core is the same; teamwork. In the halls of MIT, long a bastion of scientific and technological breakthroughs and the minds that create them, the spirit of teamwork is alive and well in more ways than one. A team of researchers have decided to create an eye tracking system for smartphones, but rather than calling participants to the lab to let the robot scope out their eyeballs in action, they decided to allow just about anybody to jump in through the use of a special iOS app. This, and a push on Amazon's Mechanical Turk, has resulted in oodles of data from over 1,500 people, as opposed to the normal 50 or so that such a study normally draws in.