{"id":52,"date":"2018-06-19T13:28:13","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T13:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/dmid\/?p=52"},"modified":"2019-01-17T14:42:56","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T14:42:56","slug":"52","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/dmid\/2018\/06\/19\/52\/","title":{"rendered":"Eye tracking research project kick starts Gabriele&#8217;s UX career."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-55\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/dmid\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2018\/06\/gabriele-1-e1529414130937-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/dmid\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2018\/06\/gabriele-1-e1529414130937-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/dmid\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2018\/06\/gabriele-1-e1529414130937-768x573.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/dmid\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2018\/06\/gabriele-1-e1529414130937-1024x764.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/dmid\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2018\/06\/gabriele-1-e1529414130937-676x504.jpg 676w, https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/dmid\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2018\/06\/gabriele-1-e1529414130937.jpg 1756w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Interactive Media Design student Gabriele Maffoni has been working as a research assistant for Dr. Laura Muir for the last few months.\u00a0 They&#8217;ve been using our state of the art User Experience lab, The Sensorium, to capture eye tracking data for a\u00a0research project which aims to\u00a0improve facial recognition for security systems\u00a0 by analysing patterns in human behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>Gabriele says &#8221;\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">I was given the opportunity to work in the Sensorium Lab and to be research assistant on a project that involves eye tracking.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">I have an active role in the research and I am learning skills that will be useful in my future dream job (UX Designer), as well as gaining knowledge about topics that seemed unrelated to me. Turns out, they are!&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>They are seen here at the Edinburgh Napier University research conference, sharing the findings so far.\u00a0 Gabriele is now spending the summer undertaking an internship in a User Experience company in Italy &#8211; the perfect opportunity to\u00a0 put his new skills to the test before returning for fourth year.<\/p>\n<p>You can follow Dr. Laura Muir (@ilauramuir) on twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interactive Media Design student Gabriele Maffoni has been working as a research assistant for Dr. Laura Muir for the last few months.\u00a0 They&#8217;ve been using our state of the art User Experience lab, The Sensorium, to capture eye tracking data for a\u00a0research project which aims to\u00a0improve facial recognition for security systems\u00a0 by analysing patterns in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":184,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-projects","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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