{"id":2879,"date":"2020-02-10T15:41:45","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T20:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/?p=2879"},"modified":"2026-03-26T04:20:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T08:20:27","slug":"where-today-meets-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/where-today-meets-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Eye-tracking has the power to transform your workplace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
This entry is by Product Engineering Software’s Vanessa Bloss.<\/em><\/h6>\n\n\n\n
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What would\nyou say if someone told you to run a marathon once a week? You would probably\ncall that person crazy. But did you know that the average designer moves their\nmouse up to 4 miles per day and does 8000 mouse clicks? In a normal work day\nwith 7 working hours this accumulates to almost 20 miles of mouse movements per\nweek! Without realizing it many of us are doing a weekly marathon at our workstations.\nMost people would agree, that mouse clicks and mouse movements are one of the\nsimpler tasks of our daily work routine. We are mostly faced with much harder\nchallenges. Therefore, it\u2019s so interesting to see just how much time and effort\nthe simple aspects of our daily routine cost us. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Munich\nbased company 4tiitoo<\/a> made it their mission to improve our daily productivity at\nwork. 4tiitoo developed the innovative eye-tracking platform NUIA (Natural User Interfaces Application) Productivity +<\/a>, which allows more efficient\ncomputer operation through eye control. For over 30 years eye tracking was\npredominantly used as a scientific method in neuroscience or advertising\npsychology, but 4tiitoo brought the advantages of Natural User Interaction into\nour digital workplace. It’s mind-blowing what an enormous impact computer\noperation through eye control can have in a digital workplace. NUIA technology\ncan increase productivity in only one work day by more than 6%. Imagine this\nefficiency potential in a year! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The eye control platform is already used by NX customers to navigate within the NX user interface. Keith Wilson of Siemens shares his observations about the NUIA integration: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe most notable benefit for NX users will be the \u201cSmart Teleport\u201d functionality. This module automatically teleports the mouse pointer to the most likely element in the gazed area on the screen. Users will greatly benefit from this as they spend a lot of time moving between major areas of the screen. Another great area of benefit will be the quality check in production line. The eye control allows a worker to be hands-free while looking up details of the procure on a screen. \u201c <\/p>Keith Wilson, NX Business development<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

We are proud to work with such an\ninnovative partner like 4tiitoo. Our flexible and open strategy which leads to close\npartnership with a wide field of technology\npartners is one of the key pillars of our new Xcelerator portfolio. We built a strong ecosystem which\nallows you to perform at the speed of innovation, regardless of the size of\nyour company and how far along you are in your digital transformation.  The Xcelerator portfolio is based upon three\nkey pillars: Comprehensive Digital Twin;\nPersonalized and Adaptable; Flexible and Open. Our flexible and adaptable applications, as well as new\nbusiness models enable us to respond even faster to your needs. The Xcelerator\nportfolio is not just a new name, it offers more personalized ways to develop\nthe best solutions for you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We believe\nthat a comprehensive digital twin is an essential part for an effective digital\ntransformation. Our customer Polar<\/a> Electro gives a great example by\nstreamlining its mechanical, electronic and manufacturing processes using the\nfull capacity of our Siemens solutions. The Polar vision is to design the\nultimate sports watch. This sports watch needs to be perfect in size, weight,\naesthetics, ergonomics as well as functionality. This makes it a highly complex\nproduct. Polar creates their watches by designing them in NX, manages the data\nwith Teamcenter and works with FloEFD and Xpedition to develop their innovative\nproduct range. The collaboration of the different products within our portfolio\nis what brings real value to your company and which reduces the time to market\nsignificantly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thrive in complexity, be more productive and lead innovation\nwith the help of the Siemens Digital Industries Software Xcelerator portfolio. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Using your eyes to control NX? Sound far-fetched? We’ll the company 4tiitoo is already making that happen. See here for more on what technologies are making its way into NX <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27104,"featured_media":2880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/Computer_4tiitoo-002-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2879"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2965,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879\/revisions\/2965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2879"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=2879"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=2879"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}