System, apparatus, and method for identifying related content based on eye movements

摘要

An apparatus, system, and method for identifying related content based on eye movements are disclosed. The system, apparatus, and method display content to a user concurrently in two or more windows, identify areas in each of the windows where a user's eyes focus, extract keywords from the areas where the user's eyes focus in each of the windows, search a communications network for related content using the keywords, and notify the user of the related content by displaying it concurrently with the two or more windows. The keywords are extracted from one or more locations in the two or more windows in which the user's eyes pause for a predetermined amount of time or, when the user's eyes pause on an image, from at least one of the text adjacent to and the metadata associated with that image.

主权项

1. A system for identifying related content, comprising:
an output device configured to display different content to a user concurrently in two or more windows of a graphical user interface; an eye tracker configured to identify one or more areas in each of the two or more windows where a user's eyes focus; and a processor configured to:
extract one or more keywords from the one or more areas where the user's eyes focus in each of the two or more windows;search a communications network for related content using the one or more keywords; andnotify the user of the related content.