Sensors that estimate aperson's cognitive statewhile they work.
Research links fatigue, attention, and mental effort to changes in the eyes, such as how long blinks last and how much the pupils dilate. Avelis is developing sensors to pick up those changes in real time. Our goal is to warn people while there’s still time to act.
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The problem
You often don't notice when you're losing focus.
Modern systems can determine where we are, how we are moving, what surrounds us, and where we are looking. Newer cars can also warn drivers who seem drowsy or look away from the road.
Fatigue and lapses in attention are hard to catch, both for the person and for the systems around them. Avelis is building that missing layer.
Cognitive state is the missing input.
Why the eyes
The eyes reveal more than where you are looking.
For decades, eye tracking has primarily been used to understand where people look. Avelis is interested in what else the signal can reveal.
How it works
From eye signals to an estimate of cognitive state
Sense
Capture subtle physiological signals through the eye.
Interpret
Separate meaningful changes from variation, context, and noise.
Respond
Give people and systems an opportunity to adapt before performance failure becomes obvious.
Applications
Defense & Aerospace
Fatigue and attention in pilots and crews.
Transportation
Fatigue and attention in drivers and operators.
Safety-Critical Systems
Earlier visibility into changes that precede performance failure.
Healthcare
Eye-based measures of fatigue and attention for clinical research.
Research
A new way to study attention and fatigue outside the laboratory.
Next-Generation Computing
Interfaces that can respond to the person using them.