THE MIND'S EYE
Team Work - 5 members | Game Design | 2020
Team Won The Best Use of Eye Tracking
Importance of learning about your biases
Biases can lead people to pre-mature and inaccurate perceptions of the world and prevent them from cultivating thoughtful and introspective worldviews. When scaled this leads to misinformed citizens and misguided policies.
DESIGN BRIEF
Background
Big social media giants like Facebook are in some ways exacerbating confirmation bias by measuring click rates/eyeball times and showing users information they would be more likely to linger on based on these measurements, to maximize eyeball time to sell to advertisers. This contributes to political polarization and has even contributed to the rise of right-wing extremism in the U.S., Europe, and around the globe.
Use cases: For the general public, in classrooms, orientation for corporate employees, detectives, policemen, judges, etc.
What We Use
C# Sranipal Vive Vive pro HTCvive steam VR Unity GitHub Repo
The Murder is Jane
Actual story:
Jane found out that Ted abused her daughter so she poisoned Ted when she came over to visit. She put cyanide in his glass of wine when he wasn’t looking.
Our game intended to demonstrate and quantify the user’s confirmation bias by measuring how long users looked at certain objects using eye-tracking.
Because of Bill and Leo’s unseemly pasts, the user is likely to be more suspicious of them and therefore linger for a disproportionate amount of time on the objects that would have likely been used by Bill or Leo to commit the murder rather than the items that would have been related to murder by Jane.
There were four-game items associated with Bill and Leo: the knife, the moving couch, the shattered glass, and the baseball bat. Whereas there were two items associated with Jane: the cocaine and wine glass. Therefore if the ratio of time spent looking at the items associated with Leo and Bill to time spent looking at items associated with Jane was greater than 2:1...that suggests that some level of confirmation bias might have been in play.
TEST & DATA COLLECTION
These data can be found that different users have different watching times, which will affect their final judgments.
Unit: second
Old Lady
Business Man
Teenager
Sofa
BaseBall
Drug
Knife
Glass
Hair
EarRing
Subject
Player
Murder
11.77081
9.148896
11.24164
7.743486
51.21772
34.44666
29.98065
0.5011572
6.255911
8.630158
Quanah
20.79217
44.97869
45.28387
26.09152
20.95868
27.26753
17.6024
12.68572
1.147672
1.347386
Zheng Liang
Bill: Business Man
Jane: Old Lady
CHALLENGE
First time working with eye-tracking with very little documentation.
My work: 1. build a scene by using model assets from the Unity asset store and from Sketchfab. 2. make the video.
Anna Shabayev
(developer)
Weiyu Feng
(developer)
Meixin Yu
(designer)
Muhammad Rustamov
(developer)
Nathanael McMahon
(writer)
Team won The Best Use of Eye Tracking 2020
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