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Tobii Technology is a Swedish high-technology company that develops and sells products for eye control and eye tracking. John Elvesjo, Mårten Skogö and Henrik Eskilsson founded the company in 2001. All three founders play an active role in the company: Henrik Eskilsson is the CEO, John Elvesjö is vice president and CTO, and Mårten Skogö is Chief Science Officer. In the spring of 2007, the company got $14 million in venture capital from Investor Growth Capital.〔( Tobii Technology raises $14,000,000 ).〕 In May 2009, Investor, Amadeus Capital Partners and Northzone Ventures invested an additional $16 million.〔( Tobii Technology raises $16M funding ).〕 and at the start of 2012, Intel Capital invested $21 million.〔(Intel invest in Tobii eye tracker ).〕〔( Intel leads 21 million investment in Tobii's eye tracking system ).〕 In 2008, Tobii won the Grand Award of Design for its eye-controlled screens. In 2010, Tobii won the SIME Grand Prize for having the most innovative technology concept. In 2011, Tobii Glasses won the red dot design award, an international product design competition and later the same year, Tobii won the Bully Award. In 2012, Tobii took home the award for best prototype at the consumer technology tradeshow 2012 CES and Laptop Magazine named Tobii the winner in its best new technology category. Tobii is based in Stockholm, Sweden, with offices in the US, Japan, China, Germany and Norway. The products are sold directly and through resellers and partners worldwide. Tobii became publicly traded on April 22, 2015,〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Reuters )〕 trading on the Stockholm Stock Exchange. ==Markets== Tobii has products in several market segments: People with communication disabilities use Tobii’s technical devices and language tools (AAC devices) to communicate.〔( Tobii brings Sono Flex to android, helps special needs students ).〕〔( ETTAC to demonstrate latest technology ).〕 Tobii also has products that are widely used for research in the academic community, and to conduct usability studies and market surveys of commercial products. Tobii also partners with others to integrate eye tracking and eye control in different industry applications and fields such as advanced driver assistance,〔( Tobii keeps an eye on distracted drivers ).〕 consumer computing〔( Here Comes the Next Generation of Eye-Tracking ).〕〔( Death of the mouse: How eye-tracking technology could save the PC ).〕 and gaming. In 2011, the world’s first eye controlled arcade game〔(Shoot Asteroids with your Eyes in 3D ).〕 was unveiled at Dave & Buster’s in New York. Tobii Gaze was demonstrated on a Windows 8〔( I just controlled Windows 8 with my eyes and it made me believe in technology again )〕 computer, an interface that makes it possible for users to use their eyes to point and interact with a standard computer, at the consumer technology tradeshow CES in January 2012.〔( The best demo we saw at CES 2012: Tobii's eye tracking )〕 File:Ulrich and his Tobii communication device.jpg|Ulrich and his Tobii communication device File:Tobii EyeAsteroids eye control arcade game.png|Tobii's eye controlled arcade game; EyeAsteroids File:Tobii X1 Light Eye Tracker Laptop.jpg|Snap-on Tobii X1 Light Eye Tracker for portable labs 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tobii Technology」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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