Tim J Smith, expert in scene perception and film cognition, and of The DIEM project [1] recently starred as a guest blogger for David Bordwell, a leading film theorist with an impressive list of books and publications widely used in film cognition/film art research/studies [2]. In his article featured on David’s site, Tim expands on his research on film cognition including continuity editing [3], attentional synchrony [4], and the project we worked on in 2008-2010 as part of The DIEM Project. Since Tim’s feature on David Bordwell’s blog, The DIEM Project saw a surge of publicity and our vimeo video loads going higher than 200,000 in a single day and features on dvice, slashfilm, gizmodo, Rogert Ebert’s facebook/twitter, and the front page of imbd.com.
Not to mention, our tools and visualizations are finally reaching an audience with interests in film, photography, and cognition. If you haven’t yet seen some of our videos, please head on over to our vimeo page, where you can see a range of videos embedded with eye-tracking of participants and many different visualizations of models of eye-movements using machine learning, or start by reading Tim’s post on … Continue reading...