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  1. Re:Head/Eye Tracking by jalessio · · Score: 1 · on Hands Free Computer Operation for Quadriplegics?

    A friend of mine has been working on the ERICA project for many years and I'm pretty sure that it is for sale for use by people with disabilities. People have been using it for exactly that purpose for a number of years. See the quotes on http://ericainc.com/control.html

  2. Re:Head/Eye Tracking by jalessio · · Score: 1 · on Hands Free Computer Operation for Quadriplegics?

    A friend of mine has been working on the ERICA project for many years and I'm pretty sure that it is for sale for use by people with disabilities. People have been using it for exactly that purpose for a number of years. See the quotes on http://ericainc.com/control.html

  3. The solution by miraj31415 · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Type With Your Eyes
    There already is a system out there, albeit closed-source, that provides a better way to type with your eyes than Dasher. The ERICA system allows you to look at a keyboard on the screen, and control the mouse to move and "click" on the letter or word of choice. And I bet that you can get better results with it than with Dasher because it uses a customizable QWERTY layout with buttons for word-completion.

    Furthermore, ERICA is integrated with Windows, so you can use it to completely control the computer and do almost anything you need (not sure how well it would work with Quake ;-) . And just to make it more interesting, it was made by the same guy that made Stephen Hawking's system!

  4. Re:Just use your eyes by psiflare · · Score: 1 · on Review of Hands Free Mouse

    problem is, it says here that the erica system gets only "approximately 0.5 to 1 centimeter accuracy on a computer monitor when sitting at a normal viewing distance", versus the trackir, which gets a sensor accuracy "greater than 1 mm in translational reporting RMS, accuracy is about .5mm" at 18" from the unit, as reported by an employee on their dev boards here.

    btw, trackir also has mostly working linux drivers, and a freeware non-commercial activex component.

  5. Just use your eyes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting · on Review of Hands Free Mouse

    Your head will get tired, your eye's won't. Check out this link and look at their tool.

  6. Re:Face Recognition by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on RSI, WIMPs and Pipes; What Next?

    It's called Gaze-tracking. The company I worked for (ERICA Inc.) is perfecting it. No need to blink, though, just stare for a moment, and you've clicked. Quite awesome technology, if you ask me.

  7. ERICA by ndf9f · · Score: 2 · on Eye-based Navigation Research From IBM

    ERICA, Eyegaze Resoponse Interface Computer Aid, computing already exists, and is commercially available at ERICA
    . It was developed at the University of Virginia, and I know that both Stephen Hawking and Christopher Reeve use it. It can track your eye movements, move the cursor on the screen, and detect when you want to click on something. I remember helping to test it a few years ago by sitting at a computer with the system installed and looking at a series of pictures. Some were nice things like kittens (aww, how cute, eye relaxes) and some were really graphic porn (yikes! eye contracts).