Brian A. Smith | Projects

Selected Projects

A build-it-yourself digital camera designed for kids and education. Can be powered with a hand crank and takes regular, panoramic, and 3D photos.

A photo-sharing Web site for kids. Built with a powerful moderation platform backed by teachers and parents. Currently offline.

An online game that puts your science, photography, and geography skills to the test. Go for the gold and earn personalized certificates!

A new benchmark for advancing research in gaze tracking systems. Contains more images than any other gaze data set.

A method for detecting eye contact in images, allowing people to interact with computers, devices, and other objects just by looking at them.

Making it possible to describe gameplay in a quantitative way.

Optimized touchscreen keyboards that let you type faster and more accurately than ever.

Making racing games equivalently accessible to people who are blind.

A client-facing Web site for van Biema Value Partners, LLC, an investment management firm focused on small, deep value-oriented hedge funds.

Google Maps and Google+ Local have billions of listings from many sources (including users). This is a new way of maintaining their integrity.