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Beware! Your computer may be spying on you
Wednesday March 20, 2013 10:33:29 AM,
IANS
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London: If you are
given to gossiping and easing out in office the minute your boss
steps out, beware your computer could be keeping an eye on you.
Researchers from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, have
developed a new kind of computer monitor which will be able to
tell your boss if you are paying attention at work or not, the
Daily Mail reported.
It works by having a camera mounted above the workstation display
which can identify the user's eyes to see if they are looking at
the computer or not.
The technology is an unsettling echo of technologies being
introduced in television set-top boxes to peer back at viewers and
automatically serve appropriate adverts.
The research team, however, contends its innovation is not aimed
at keeping an eye on workers, but merely to ensure they don't miss
anything new which appears on their screens.
The system called "Diff Displays", detects when its user is not
looking at a display and replaces the regular screen image with a
calm and non-distractive visualisation of the screen's activity
instead.
It reduces distractions by fading out the parts of the screen that
remain static and by subtly visualising changes in the display
over time.
When the user looks back at a display, the system quickly changes
back from the visualisation to the actual screen content via
different forms of animation.
The technology could be of crucial use in high-pressure
environments such as air-traffic control rooms, where workers have
several screens to keep tabs on, say researchers.
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