E.Y.E. C. U.: an Emotional eYe trackEr for Cultural heritage sUpport

Enjoying a painting, a sculpture or, more in general, a piece of art and, at the same time, to receive all the information you need about it: in this paper, we present E.Y.E. C. U. (read “I see you”), a modular eye tracking system which supports art galleries fruition without diverting visitors attention. Every time a visitor lingers on a painting detail, a hidden camera detects her gaze and the framework beams, in real time, the related illustrative contents on the wall region around it, deeply implementing the augmented reality meaning. E.Y.E. C. U. enhances the gaze detection functionalities with an emotional analysis module: as pupil is well known to reflect the emotional arousal, we monitor its size, in order to detect radius variations. Once the visitor has completed her visit, the system summarizes the observed details and the emotional reactions in a report.