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  • Bayat, A. & Pomplun, M. (submitted). A Breakthrough Strategy in Biometric Identification through Eye-Movement Patterns. Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2017), Honolulu, Hawaii.
  • Ahmed Wick, F., Wick., M. & Pomplun, M. (submitted). Filling in the Details: Perceiving from Low-Fidelity Visual Input. The 5th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2017), Toulon, France.
  • Bayat, A. & Pomplun, M. (submitted). The Influence of Text Characteristics on Eye-Movement Behavior during Reading. ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2017), Denver, CO.
  • Attar, N. & Pomplun, M. (2016). Enhancing Reading Interfaces and Comprehension Measuerment with Eye Tracking Data. IEEE 2nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (ICHCI’16), Chennai, India, pp. 1-6.
  • Attar, N., Wu, C., Sia, D. & Pomplun, M. (2016). A Deeper Understanding of Optimal Viewing Position Using Eye Fixations and Character Recognition on Text-Viewing and Reading Tasks. ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications (ETRA 2016), Charleston, SC, pp. 209-212.
  • Attar, N., Fomenky, P., Ding, W.. & Pomplun, M. (2016). Improving Cognitive Load Measurement through Preprocessing of Pychophysical Data by Random Subspace Time-Series Method. IEEE 2nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (ICHCI’16), Chennai, India, pp. 1-6.
  • Huang, H., Lin, N.C., Barrett, L., Springer, D., Wang, H.C., Pomplun, M. & Yu, L.F. (2016). Analyzing visual attention via virtual environments. SIGGRAPH ASIA 2016: Virtual Reality meets Physical Reality: Modelling and Simulating Virtual Humans and Environments, Macao, pp. 1- 8.
  • Bayat, A., Pomplun, M. & Tran, D. (2014). A Study on Human Activity Recognition Using Accelerometer Data from Smartphones. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC'14).
  • Akbal-Delibas, B., Pomplun, M. & Haspel, N. (2014). AccuRMSD: A Machine Learning Approach to Predicting Structure Similarity of Docked Protein Complexes. Proceedings of the Fifth ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Health Informatics (ACM-BCB 2014), Newport Beach, California.
  • Attar, N., Wu, C.C. & Pomplun, M (2014). The Effect of Immediate Accuracy Feedback in a Multiple-Target Visual Search Task. Proceedings of the Thirty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2014), Quebec City, Canada.
  • Akbal-Delibas, B., Pomplun, M. & Haspel, N. (2014). An Artificial Neural Network to Predict RMSDs of Docked Protein Complexes. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 2014), Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Wu, C.C., Wang, H.C. & Pomplun, M. (2013). The Role of Scene Gist and Spatial Dependency among Objects in the Semantic Guidance of Attention. Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013, Berlin, Germany.
  • Wang, H.C., Lu, S., Lim, J.H. & Pomplun, M. (2012). Visual attention is attracted by text features even in scenes without text. Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2012, Sapporo, Japan.
  • Wang, H.C., Hsu, L.C., Tien, Y.M. & Pomplun, M. (2012). Estimating semantic transparency of constituents of English compounds and two-character Chinese words. Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2012, Sapporo, Japan.
  • Plummer, P., Wang, H.C., Tzeng, Y., Pomplun, M. & Rayner, K. (2012). Modeling concept activation in working memory during online sentence processing. Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2012, Sapporo, Japan.
  • Wang, H.C. & Pomplun, M. (2011). The attraction of visual attention to texts in real-world scenes. Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2011, Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Hwang, A.D., Wang, H.C. & Pomplun, M. (2009). Semantic guidance of eye movements during real-world scene inspection. Proceedings of the Thirty-First Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2009, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  • Garaas, T.W., Duzcu, H., Marino, F. & Pomplun, M. (2009). A design for real-time neural modeling on the GPU incorporating dendritic computation. Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks and Intelligent Information Processing (ANNIIP 2009). Milan, Italy.
  • Garaas, T.W. & Pomplun, M. (2009). Autonomous camera control by neural models in robotic vision systems. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO 2009). Milan, Italy.
  • Garaas, T.W., Pepe, R., Lo, H.Z., Nestor, P.G. & Pomplun, M. (2009). Neural adaptability and inspection time. Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics (ICCI 2009), Hong Kong, China.
  • Ding, W., Chen, P., Al-Mubaid, H. & Pomplun, M. (2009). A Gaze-Controlled Interface to Virtual Reality Applications for Motor- and Speech-Impaired Users. Proceedings of the 2009 HCI International, San Diego, California.
  • Garaas, T.W. & Pomplun, M. (2007). Elementary Motion Analysis Using a Retina-Inspired Neural Network. Proceedings of BIONETICS 2007, Workshop on Computing and Communications from Biological Systems: Theory and Applications (CCBS 2007). Budapest, Hungary.
  • Xiao, M., Garaas, T. & Pomplun, M. (2007). A Robust Neural Network Approach for Determining 3D Gaze Position. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII 2007), Beijing, China.
  • Garaas, T.W., Xiao, M. & Pomplun, M. (2007). Personalized spell checking using neural networks. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII 2007), Beijing, China.
  • Garaas, T.W. & Pomplun, M. (2007). The Visual Implications of Inspection Time. In D. Zhang, Y. Wang, and W. Kinsner (Eds.), Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics , 2007 (pp. 62 - 71). Lake Tahoe, California, USA.
  • Hwang, A.D., Higgins, E.C. & Pomplun, M. (2007). How chromaticity guides visual search in real-world scenes. Twenty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2007, Nashville, Tennessee.
  • Umali, M. & Pomplun, M. (2005). Voluntary versus Involuntary Perceptual Switching: Mechanistic Differences in Viewing an Ambiguous Figure. In B.G. Bara, L. Barsalou & M. Bucciarelli (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2005, Stresa, Italy, pp. 2218-2223.
  • Carbone, E. & Pomplun, M. (2005). Simulating the Fröhlich Effect of Motion Misperception as a Result of Top-Down Attentional Modulation in the Visual System. In B.G. Bara, L. Barsalou & M. Bucciarelli (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2005, Stresa, Italy, pp. 390-395.
  • Pomplun, M., Carbone. E., Sichelschmidt, L., Velichkovsky, B.M. & Ritter, H. (2005). How to Disregard Irrelevant Stimulus Dimensions: Evidence from Comparative Visual Search. In W. Kinsner, D. Zhang, Y. Wang & J. Tsai (Eds.), Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics (ICCI 2005), University of California, Irvine, USA, pp. 183-192.
  • Xiao, M., Hyppolite, J.R., Pomplun, M., Sunkara, S. & Carbone, E. (2005). Compensating for the Eye-Hand Span Improves Gaze Control in Human-Computer Interfaces. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII 2005), Las Vegas, Nevada (on CD).
  • Maw, N.N. & Pomplun, M. (2004). Studying Human Face Recognition with the Gaze-Contingent Window Technique. In K. Forbus, D. Gentner & T. Regier (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2004, Chicago, Illinois, pp. 927-932.
  • Essig, K., Pomplun, M. & Ritter, H. (2004). Application of a Novel Neural Approach to 3D Gaze Tracking: Vergence Eye-Movements in Autostereograms. In K. Forbus, D. Gentner & T. Regier (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2004, Chicago, Illinois, pp. 357-362.
  • Koesling, H., Carbone, E., Pomplun, M., Sichelschmidt, L. & Ritter, H. (2004). When More Seems Less – Non-Spatial Clustering in Numerosity Estimation. Proceedings of the Early Cognitive Vision Workshop, May 28 - June 1, 2004, Isle of Skye, Scotland.
  • Tsotsos, J.K., Pomplun, M., Martinez-Trujillo, J.C. & Zhou, K. (2004). Attending to Visual Motion: Localizing and Classifying Affine Motion Patterns. Proceedings of the Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision, May 17 - 20, 2004, London, Ontario, pp. 452-462.
  • Hyppolite, J.R., Pomplun, M. & Carbone, E. (2004). The Eye-Hand Span in Human-Computer Interaction. Proceedings of the 18th National Conference On Undergraduate Research (NCUR) 2004, Indiana University/Purdue University (IUPUI), Indianapolis, Indiana, April 15-17, 2004.
  • Jang, S., Pomplun, M. & Shin, M.C. (2003). Block Matching Integrating Intensity, Hueand Range. In B. Michaelis & G. Krell (Eds.), Pattern Recognition. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 2781. Proceedings of the 25th DAGM Symposium, Magdeburg, Germany (pp. 442-449). Berlin: Springer.
  • Inamdar, S. & Pomplun, M. (2003). Comparative Search Reveals the Tradeoff between Eye Movements and Working Memory Use in Visual Tasks. In R. Alterman & D. Kirsh (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2003, Boston, Massachusetts, pp. 599-604.
  • Pomplun, M. & Sunkara, S. (2003). Pupil dilation as an indicator of cognitive workload in human-computer interaction. In D. Harris, V. Duffy, M. Smith & C. Stephanidis (Eds.), Human-Centred Computing: Cognitive, Social, and Ergonomic Aspects. Vol. 3 of the Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2003, Crete, Greece, 542-546.
  • Sunkara, S. & Pomplun, M. (2003). Evaluating Human-Computer Interface Usability based on Pupillary Response. 17th National Conference on Undergraduate Research, NCUR 2003, Salt Lake City, Utah.
  • Jang, S., Pomplun, M., Kim, G. & Choi, H. (2003). Extracting Motion Model Parameters with Robust Estimation. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 2667. Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA 2003) (pp. 633-642). Berlin: Springer.
  • Tsotsos, J.K., Pomplun, M., Liu, Y., Martinez-Trujillo, J.C. & and Simine, E. (2002). Attending to Motion: Localizing and Classifying Motion Patterns in Image Sequences. In H.H. Bülthoff, S.-W. Lee, T.A. Poggio, C. Wallraven (Eds.), Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Biologically Motivated Computer Vision, BMCV 2002, Tübingen, Germany, 439-452.
  • Pomplun, M., Trujillo-Martinez, J., Simine, E., Liu, Y., Treue, S. & Tsotsos, J.K. (2002). A neurally-inspired model for detecting and localizing simple motion patterns in image sequences.Proceedings of the 4th Workshop Dynamic Perception, Bochum, Germany, 47-52.
  • Pomplun,M., Ivanovic, N., Reingold, E.M., Shen, J. (2001). Empirical Evaluation of a Novel Gaze-Controlled Zooming Interface. In M.J. Smith, G. Salvendy, D. Harris & R.J. Koubek (Eds.), Usability Evaluation and Design: Cognitive Engineering, Intelligent Agents and Virtual Reality. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction 2001, New Orleans, USA.
  • Pomplun, M. & Mataric, M.J. (2000). Evaluation metrics and results of human arm movement imitation. Proceedings of the First IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids-2000), MIT, Cambridge, MA.
  • Pomplun, M., Reingold, E.M., Shen, J. & Williams, D.E. (2000). The area activation model of saccadic selectivity in visual search. In Gleitman, L.R. & Joshi, A.K. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty Second Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 375-380. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
  • Pomplun, M. & Ritter, H. (1999). A three-level model of comparative visual search. In Hahn, M. & Stoness, S.C. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty First Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 543-548.
  • Clermont, T., Pomplun, M., Prestin, E. & Rieser, H. (1998). Eye-movement research and the investigation of dialogue structure. In J. Hulstijn & A. Nijholt (Eds.), Formal Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Twente Workshop on Language Technology, 61-75.
  • Velichkovsky, B.M., Sprenger, A. & Pomplun, M. (1997). Auf dem Weg zur Blickmaus: Die Beeinflussung der Fixationsdauer durch kognitive und kommunikative Aufgaben. In Liskowsky, R., Velichkovsky, B.M. & Wünschmann, W. (Eds.), Software-Ergonomie '97: Usability Engineering, 317-327.
  • Pomplun, M., Velichkovsky, B.M. & Ritter, H. (1994). An artificial neural network for high precision eye movement tracking. In Nebel, B. & Dreschler-Fischer, L. (Eds.), Lecture notes in artificial intelligence: AI-94 Proceedings, 63-69. Berlin: Springer Verlag.
Other Conference Presentations
  • Bayat, A., Bayat, A.H. &, Pomplun, M. (submitted). Information Fusion based on Fixation Patterns and Semantic Analysis for Observer Identification during Reading. Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS 2017), St. Petersburg, Florida.
  • Schneps, M., Chen, C., Pomplun, M., Crosby, A. & Kent, K. (2016, May). Re-Inventing Reading: Rapid multi-channel processing of language accelerates reading. Poster at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS 2016), St. Petersburg, Florida.
  • Schneps, M., Chen, C., Pomplun, M., Crosby, A. & Kent, K. (2016, May). Re-Inventing Reading: Rapid multi-channel processing of language accelerates reading. Poster at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS 2016), St. Petersburg, Florida.
  • Wang, J., Schneps, Antonenko, P., Pomplun, M., & Dawson, K. (2016, May). Do Dyslexic Learners Benefit from Holistic Processing in a Comparative Visual Search Task? Poster at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS 2016), St. Petersburg, Florida.
  • Yazdanbakhsh, A., Wu, C., Cao, B., Dali, V., Gagliardi, C., Pomplun, M. & Cronin-Golomb, A. (2016, May). Involuntary Saccades and Binocular Coordination during Visual Pursuit in Parkinson’s Disease. Poster at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS 2016), St. Petersburg, Florida.
  • Attar, N., Fomenky, P., Ding, W. & Pomplun, M. Modeling an Unsupervised Time-Series Learning Method for Visual Search Leveraging Preprocessed Cognitive Load Pupil Data. The 45th Annual Meeting of the Society for Computers in Psychology (SCiP), Chicago, USA, 2015.
  • Pomplun, M. (2015, June). Guidance of visual attention by low- and high-level features in real-world scenes. NeuroHAM 2015, Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Ahmed Wick, F. & Pomplun, M. (2015, May). The semantic advantage in object memorization. Poster at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS 2015), St. Petersburg, Florida.
  • Schneps, M., Chen, C., Pomplun, M., Crosby, A. & Kent, K. (2015, May). Re-Inventing Reading: Rapid multi-channel processing of language accelerates reading. Poster at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS 2015), St. Petersburg, Florida.
  • Wu, C.C., Attar, N.H., & Pomplun, M. (2015, May). Involuntary semantic bias in search for words and word pairs. Poster at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS 2015), St. Petersburg, Florida.
  • Wu, C.C., Wang. H.C., & Pomplun, M. (2014, May). Spatial dependency of objects, but not scene gist contributes semantic guidance of attention. Poster at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS 2014), St. Petersburg, Florida.
  • Ahmed Wick, F., Saura, L., Wu. C.C. & Pomplun, M. (2014, May). Semantic bias in visual working memory. Poster at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS 2014), St. Petersburg, Florida.
  • Guillory, S., Kaldy, Z., Shukla, M. & Pomplun, M. (2014, May). Pupil Response Predicts Memory Strength in a Visual Short-term Memory Task. Poster at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS 2014), St. Petersburg, Florida.
  • Attar, N.H., Wu, C.C. & Pomplun, M. (2014, May). Immediate Feedback During Multiple-Target Visual Search Improves Accuracy. Poster at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS 2014), St. Petersburg, Florida.
  • Ahmed Wick, F., Saura, L., Wu. C.C. & Pomplun, M. (2014, April). Semantic bias in visual working memory. Poster at the 21st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA.
  • Pomplun, M. (2013, October). Guidance of visual attention by low- and high-level features in real-world scenes. 1st International Workshop on Solutions for Automatic Gaze Data Analysis (SAGA 2013), Bielefeld, Germany.
  • Attar, N.H., Schneps, M.H. & Pomplun, M. (2013, May). Pupil size as a measure of working memory load during a complex visual search task. Poster at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS 2013), Naples, Florida.
  • Schneps, M., Thomson, J., Sonnert, G., Pomplun, M., Chen, C., & Heffner-Wong, A. (2013, May). E-readers configured for short lines facilitate reading in those who struggle. Poster at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS 2013), Naples, Florida.
  • Ahmed-Wick, F., Garaas, T.W., & Pomplun, M. (2013, May). Saccadic adaptation modulates inhibition of return. Poster at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS 2013), Naples, Florida.
  • Pomplun, M., Silva, E., Ronda, J.M., Cain, S.W., Münch, M.Y., Czeisler, C.A. & Duffy, J.F. (2012, June). Circadian phase and time awake influence performance on complex visual tasks. Poster presented at Sleep 2012, Boston, MA.
  • Wu, C.C., Wang. H.C., & Pomplun, M. (2013, May). The contribution of scene gist and spatial dependency of objects to semantic guidance of attention. Poster at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS 2013), Naples, Florida.
  • Wang, H.C., Schotter, E.R., Angele, B., Yang, J., Simovici, D., Pomplun, M. & Rayner, K. (2012, June). Using Singular Value Decomposition to Investigate Degraded Chinese Character Recognition: Evidence from Eye Movements During Reading. Oral presentation at China International Conference on Eye Movements (CICEM 2012).
  • Attar, N.H., Schneps, M.H. & Pomplun, M. (2012, May). Working memory load increase predicts visual search efficiency. Poster at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS 2012), Naples, Florida.
  • Higgins, E.C., Pomplun, M., Tran, R. & Rayner, K. (2011, November). Saccadic adaptation to random error. Poster at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Seattle, WA.
  • Ahmed-Wick, F., Garaas, T.W., Eglington, L. & Pomplun, M. (2011, August). Saccadic adaptation alters the attentional field. Poster at the 16th European Conference on Eye Movements (ECEM2011), Marseille, France.
  • Wang, H.C., Angele, B., Schotter, E., Yang, J., Simovici, D., Pomplun, M. & Rayner, K. (2011, August). Singular value decomposition is a valid predictor of stroke importance in reading Chinese. Poster at the 16th European Conference on Eye Movements (ECEM2011), Marseille, France.
  • Wang, H.C. & Pomplun, M. (2011, July). The attraction of visual attention to texts in real-world scenes – are Chinese texts attractive to non-Chinese Speakers? Poster at the Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision (APCV 2011), Hong Kong, China.
  • Eglington, L., Ahmed-Wick, F. & Pomplun, M. (2011, May). Visual Attention and Working Memory. Poster presented at the 17th Massachusetts Statewide Undergraduate Research Conference, Amherst, Massachusetts.
  • Diaz-Merced, W.L., Schneps, M.H., Brickhouse, N., Pomplun, M., Brewster, S. & Mannone, J. (2011, May). Exploring Sound to Convey Information. 218th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), Boston, MA.
  • Schneps, M.H., Brockmole, J.R., Rose, L.T., Pomplun, M., Sonnert, G. & Greenhill, L.J. (2011, May). Dyslexia Linked to Visual Strengths Useful in Astronomy. 218th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), Boston, MA.
  • Wang, H.C. & Pomplun, M. (2011, January). How does text in real-world scenes attract attention? Poster presented at the MIT Scene Understanding Symposium (SUnS 2011), Cambridge, MA.
  • Wang, H.C., Tien, Y.M., Hsu, L.C. & Pomplun, M. (2010, July). The role of semantic transparency in the processing of two-character Chinese words. Poster at the Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision (APCV 2010), Taipei, Taiwan.
  • Luo, G., Garaas, T.W., Pomplun, M. & Peli, E. (2010, May). Peri-saccadic mislocalization centered at salient stimulus instead of saccade target. Poster at the Meeting of the Visual Sciences Society 2010, Naples, Florida, USA.
  • Hwang, A.D. & Pomplun, M. (2010, May). The dynamics of top-down and bottom-up control of visual attention during search in complex scenes. Poster presented at the Meeting of the Visual Sciences Society 2010, Naples, Florida, USA.
  • Ahmed, F., Hwang, A.D., Walsh, E.C. & Pomplun, M. (2010, May). Conspicuity of Object Features Determines Local versus Global Mental Rotation Strategies. Poster presented at the Meeting of the Visual Sciences Society 2010, Naples, Florida, USA.
  • Schneps, M., Brockmole, J., Heffner-Wong, A, Pomplun, M., Hwang, A.D., Schneps, M. & Sonnert, G. (2010, May). The Role of Gist in Dyslexia. Poster presented at the Meeting of the Visual Sciences Society 2010, Naples, Florida, USA.
  • Wang, H.C., Hwang, A.D. & Pomplun, M. (2009, August). Frequency and predictability effects on eye fixation time in real-world scene viewing. Talk at the 15th European Conference on Eye Movements (ECEM 2009), Southampton, UK.
  • Garaas, T.W. & Pomplun, M. (2009, May). Distortion in perceived object size accompanies saccadic adaptation. Poster at the Meeting of the Visual Sciences Society 2009, Naples, Florida, USA.
  • Spering, M., Pomplun, M. & Carrasco, M. (2009, May). Differential effects of suppressed visual motion information on perception and action during binocular rivalry flash suppression. Talk at the Meeting of the Visual Sciences Society 2009, Naples, Florida, USA.
  • Pomplun, M., Garaas, T.W. & Carrasco, M. (2009, May). The effects of task demands on the dynamics of visual search in virtual 3D displays. Poster at the Meeting of the Visual Sciences Society 2009, Naples, Florida, USA.
  • Luo, G., Garaas, T.W., Pomplun, M. & Peli, E. (2009, May). Does saccadic space compression mean size shrinking? Poster at the Meeting of the Visual Sciences Society 2009, Naples, Florida, USA.
  • Marino, F., Garaas, T.W. & Pomplun, M. (2009, May). On the perception of temporal visual events. Poster at the Meeting of the Visual Sciences Society 2009, Naples, Florida, USA.
  • Marino, F., Garaas, T.W. & Pomplun, M. (2009, May). On the perception of temporal visual events. Poster at the Meeting of the Visual Sciences Society 2009, Naples, Florida, USA.
  • Ackermann, J.F., Pomplun, M. & Landy, M.S. (2009, May). Conservatism in a 2AFC Discrimination Task. Poster at the Meeting of the Visual Sciences Society 2009, Naples, Florida, USA.
  • Schneps, M., Rose, T.L., Martinez-Conde, S. & Pomplun, M. (2009, May). Covert Orienting Reflex: Involuntary pupil response predicts microsaccade production. Poster at the Meeting of the Visual Sciences Society 2009, Naples, Florida, USA.
  • Hwang, A.D., Wang, H.C. & Pomplun, M. (2009, May). Semantic guidance of eye movements during real-world scene inspection. Poster at the Meeting of the Visual Sciences Society 2009, Naples, Florida, USA.
  • Hwang, A.D., Higgins, E.C. & Pomplun, M. (2009, January). A model of top-down attentional control during visual search in complex scenes. Poster presented at the MIT Scene Understanding Symposium (SUnS 2009), Cambridge, MA.
  • Hwang, A.D., Wang, H.C. & Pomplun, M. (2009, January). Semantic guidance of eye movements during real-world scene perception. Poster presented at the MIT Scene Understanding Symposium (SUnS 2009), Cambridge, MA.
  • Umali, M., Pomplun, M., & Hirsch, J. (2008, November). Cognitive and stimulus-driven guidance in feature-based visual search. Talk given at the 38th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in Washington, D.C.
  • Garaas, T.W., Marino, F. & Pomplun, M. (2008, November). A neural system for efficient visual search in autonomous robotics. Talk given at the IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Practical Robot Applications. Woburn, Massachusetts, USA.
  • Hwang, A.D. & Pomplun, M. (2008, May). A model of top-down control of attention during visual search in real-world scenes. Lecture presented at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, Florida.
  • Garaas, T.W. & Pomplun, M. (2008, May). The effect of target size and information density on saccadic adaptation during real-world image search. Poster presented at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, Florida.
  • Umali, M., Pomplun, M., & Hirsch, J. (2008, April). Top-Down & Bottom-Up Regulation of Feature Prioritization in Comparative Visual Search. Poster presented at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, California.
  • Umali, M., Pomplun, M., & Hirsch, J. (2008, April). Top-Down & Bottom-Up Regulation of Feature Prioritization in Comparative Visual Search. Poster presented at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, California.
  • Xiao, M., Melo, H., Garaas, T., Hwang, A. & Pomplun, M. (2007, July). Cognitive effects of gaze input and stereoscopic depth on human-computer interaction. Poster presented at theTwenty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2007, Nashville, Tennessee.
  • Gold, B.J., Pomplun, M., Rice, N.J., & Sekuler, R. (2007, May). A novel approach to studying human imitation. Oral presentation at the Eleventh Internaltional Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Garaas, T., Xiao, M. & Pomplun, M. (2006, July). Implicit and Explicit learning as it relates to machine vision systems. Research poster presented at the 2006 ACM SIGGRAPH Conference, Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Xu, Y., Higgins, E., Xiao, M., & Pomplun, M. (2006, April). Color and the guidance of visual search. Poster presented at the 12th Massachusetts Conference On Undergraduate Research, Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Alshibli, A., Pomplun, M., Stefanescu, D., Xu, Z., & Zinoviev, D. (2006, March). Evaluation of Web Page Complexity through Pupil Dilation Measurement. Oral presentation at the 2006 Suffolk University Academic Conference, Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Kaldy, Z., Blaser, E., Kibbe, M., & Pomplun, M. (2005, May). What drives visual salience in young infants? Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 6-11, Sarasota, Florida.
  • Blaser, E., Kaldy, Z., Eddy, K., & Pomplun, M. (2005, May). Determining salience for complex objects. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 6-11, Sarasota, Florida.
  • Pomplun, M., Weng, Z., Wong, M. & Hu, C. (2005, March). Area Activation II: Predicting saccadic selectivity in visual search tasks. Invited oral presentation at the US Air Force Workshop on Integrated Models of Cognitive Systems (IMoCS), March 3-6, Saratoga Springs, New York.
  • Koesling, H., Pomplun, M. & Ritter, H. (2004, August). One + One = Two? - The Effects of Non-Spatial Object Clustering on Numerosity Estimation. 27th Annual Meeting of the European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), Budapest, Hungary.
  • Carbone, E. & Pomplun, M. (2004, July). Motion misperception caused by attentional feedback connections: A neural model simulating the Fröhlich effect. Visual Processing in Microgenesis: Feedforward or Reentrant? German-Estonian Inter-University Symposium, Hiiumaa Island, Estonia.
  • Martinez-Trujillo, J.C., Tsotsos, J.K., Simine, E., Pomplun, M., Wildes, R., Treue, S., Heinze, H.J. & Hopf, J.M. (2004, May). A human cortical specialization for the processing of velocity gradients in moving stimuli. Fourth Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, Florida.
  • Hyppolite, J.R., Pomplun, M. & Carbone, E. (2004, May). The Eye-Hand Span in Human-Computer Interaction. 10th Massachusetts Conference On Undergraduate Research, Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Tsotsos, J.K., Martinez-Trujillo, J.C., Simine, E., Pomplun, M., Treue, S., Heinze, H.J. & Hopf, M. (2003, November). A human cortical specialization for the processing of speed gradient information in moving stimuli. The 33rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, Louisiana.
  • Simine, E., Martinez-Trujillo, J.C., Pomplun, M. & Tsotsos, J.K. (2003, June). Human integration time thresholds for discriminating transient changes in the direction of moving stimuli change with signal intensity. York Conference in Honour to Dr. D. Regan.
  • Sunkara, S. & Pomplun, M. (2003, May). Using Pupil Dilation to Evaluate the Usability of Human-Computer Interfaces. 9th Massachusetts Conference On Undergraduate Research, Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Fazl, A. & Pomplun, M. (2002, November). Eye Movements to Crowded Stimuli: The First Landing Position is Less Accurate. The 32nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in Orlando,Florida.
  • Schreiber, K., Simine, E., Martinez-Trujillo, J.C., Pomplun, M. & Tsotsos, J.K. (2002, November). Integration time for detecting transient changes in the direction of moving stimuli changes with signal intensity. The 32nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in Orlando,Florida.
  • Reingold, E. M., Charness, N., Pomplun, M., & Stampe, D. M. (2001, August). Expertise attenuates change blindness: Evidence from a gaze-contingent window paradigm. 11th European Conference on Eye Movements, Turku, Finland.
  • Reingold, E. M., Shen, J., & Pomplun, M. (2001, August). The influence of the central discrimination difficulty on saccadic selectivity in visual search. 11th European Conference on Eye Movements, Turku, Finland.
  • Shen, J., Reingold, E. M., & Pomplun, M. (2000, September). Distraction of saccade selection by a color singleton. Conference on “Eye Movements and Vision in the Natural World”. Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
  • Pomplun, M., Reingold, E.M., Shen, J. & Williams, D.E. (2000, May). Modeling saccadic selectivity in visual search tasks. 19th Banff Annual Seminar in Cognitive Science, Banff, Canada.
  • Sprenger, A., Pomplun, M. (2000, January). Optimizing eye-movement data by using neural nets. Okulomotorik Workshop Zuerich, Switzerland.
  • Reingold, E. M., Shen, J., & Pomplun, M. (1999, September). How does the distractor ratio influence the patterns of eye movements? 10th European Conference on Eye Movements, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
  • Reingold, E. M., Pomplun, M. & Shen, J. (1999, September). Guidance of search processes by parafoveal information. 10th European Conference on Eye Movements, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
  • Pomplun, M., Shen, J. & Reingold, E. M. (1999, July). The visual span in comparative visual search. 6th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Association for Interdisciplinary Learning, Hood River, Oregon.
  • Clermont, T., Koesling, H., Pomplun, M., Prestin, E. & Rieser, H. (1998, October). Eye-movement Research and the Investigation of Dialogue Structure. The Second Swedish Symposium on Multimodal Communication, Lund, Sweden.
  • Carbone, E., Pomplun, M. & Sichelschmidt, L. (1998, April). Kann Rot egal sein? Irrelevante Information bei vergleichender visueller Suche. 40. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen, Marburg, Germany.
  • Velichkovsky, B.M., Sprenger, A., Pomplun, M. & Unema, P. (1997, November). Eye movements and encoding manipulations in two visual memory tasks. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society 38th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, USA. p.73.
  • Pomplun, M., Wagner, K., Velichkovsky, B.M. & Ritter, H. (1997, September). Eye movements in comparative visual search. 9th European Conference on Eye Movements, Ulm, Germany.
  • Velichkovsky, B.M., Sprenger, A., Pomplun, M. & Unema, P. (1997, September). Eye movements dissociate levels of processing. 9th European Conference on Eye Movements, Ulm, Germany.
  • Carbone, E., Pomplun, M. & Sichelschmidt, L. (1996, April). Untersuchung visueller Aufmerksamkeitsprozesse waehrend vergleichender Suche. 38. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen, Eichstaett, Germany.
  • Pomplun, M., Rieser, H. & Velichkovsky, B.M. (1996, January). Übertragung von Blickbewegungen und Kooperationsexperimente. Zweite Fachtagung der Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft (KogWis96), Hamburg, Germany.
  • Pomplun, M., Velichkovsky, B.M., Rieser, J. & Ritter, H. (1995, September). New paradigms in eye-movement research. Eighth European Conference on Eye Movements, Derby, UK.
Technical Reports
  • Hwang, A.D., Higgins, E.C. & Pomplun, M. (2009). Informativeness guides visual search in natural scenes. University of Massachusetts Boston Computer Science Technical Report 2/2009.
  • Lennartz, A. & Pomplun, M. (2009). The feasibility of gaze tracking for “mind reading” during search. University of Massachusetts Boston Computer Science Technical Report 1/2009.
  • Marino, F., Garaas, T.W., Zhang, V. Y., Maw, N. N. & Pomplun, M. (2008). Real-time camera control using eye-movement patterns. University of Massachusetts Boston Computer Science Technical Report 1/2008.
  • Pomplun, M. & Mataric, M. (2007). A segmentation algorithm for the comparison of human limb trajectories. University of Massachusetts at Boston Computer Science Technical Report.
  • Pomplun, M. & Mataric, M.J. (2000). Evaluation metrics and results of human arm movement imitation. IRIS Techical Report IRIS-00-384, University of Southern California.
  • Pomplun, M., Prestin, E. & Rieser, H. (1998). Eye-movement research and dialogue structure. CRC 360 Technical Report 12/1998, University of Bielefeld.
  • Faisal, A.A., Fislage, M., Pomplun, M., Rae, R. & Ritter, H. (1998). Observation of human eye movements to simulate visual exploration of complex scenes. Technical report, University of Bielefeld.
  • Pomplun, M., Carbone, E., Sichelschmidt, L., Velichkovsky, B.M. & Ritter, H. (1998). How to disregard irrelevant stimulus dimensions: Evidence from comparative visual search. CRC 360 Technical Report 7/1998, University of Bielefeld.
  • Koesling, H., Pomplun, M. & Ritter, H. (1998). The effects of structural information on perceived numerosity in two-dimensional object distributions. CRC 360 Technical Report 2/1998, University of Bielefeld.
  • Mataric, M.J. & Pomplun, M. (1997). What do people look at when watching human movement?", Brandeis University Computer Science Technical Report CS-97-194.
  • Pomplun, M., Sichelschmidt, L., Wagner, K., Velichkovsky, B.M., Rickheit, G. & Ritter, H. (1995). Visuelle Suchprozesse beim Vergleich zweidimensionaler Objektmengen, Teil I: Zur Rolle der lokalen Verteilungsparameter. CRC 360 Technical Report 9/1995, University of Bielefeld.
  • Clermont, T., Meier, C., Pomplun, M., Prestin, E., Rieser, H., Ritter, H. & Velichkovsky, B.M. (1995). Augenbewegung, Fokus und Referenz. CRC 360 Technical Report 8/1995, University of Bielefeld.
  • Pomplun, M., Ritter, H. & Velichkovsky, B.M. (1995). Disambiguating Complex Visual Information: Towards Communication of Personal Views of a Scene. CRC 360 Technical Report 2/1995, University of Bielefeld.
  • Pomplun, M., Ritter, H. & Velichkovsky, B.M. (1995). An Artificial Neural Network for High Precision Eye Movement Tracking. CRC 360 Technical Report 1/1995, University of Bielefeld
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