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Some of the Weirder Ideas From CHI 2009

Posted by timothy on from the electrooculography-for-100-points-alex dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Technology Review has a roundup of some of the weirder ideas on show at last week's Computer-Human Interaction conference in Boston. They include a trackball that heats up as you roll over different parts of an image, a pair of goggles that track eye movements using electrooculography, and a miniature robot with a cellphone for its head."

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  1. Re:Tracking Eye Movements by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    You might want to look at opengazer

    http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/opengazer/

    For a while development had been abandoned but that disclaimer has now disappeared from the website so I imagine someone is working on it.

    The same people created the dasher text input system which is really worth having a look at as an example of innovative input methods.

    http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/

  2. Re:Pair eye tracking with contacts? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Your eye already has markings with can be tracked.