Ponca City, We Love You writes “Two years ago computer security expert Bill Anderson read about scientific research on how the human eye moves as it reads and processes text and images. ‘This obscure characteristic… suddenly struck me as (a solution to) a security problem,’ says Anderson. With the help of a couple of software developers, Anderson developed a software program called Chameleon that tracks a viewer’s gaze patterns and only allows an authorized user to read text on the screen, while everyone else sees gibberish. Chameleon uses gaze-tracking software and camera equipment to track an authorized reader’s eyes to show only that one person the correct text. After a 15-second calibration period in which the software learns the viewer’s gaze patterns, anyone looking over that user’s shoulder sees dummy text that randomly and constantly changes. To tap the broader consumer market, Anderson built a more consumer-friendly version called PrivateEye, which can work with a simple Web…[...]

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Gaze-Tracking Software Protects Computer Privacy