CES 2014: is eye-tracking the future PC mouse?

[Tygre]

Hi there!

For my research lab., I bought few years back a EyeLink II from SRResearch (http://www.sr-research.com/eyelinkII.html) and more recently a FaceLab 5 from Seeing Machines (http://www.seeingmachines.com/product/facelab/). Although they are great, especially the more recent FaceLab, they still require some calibration and getting used to... plus what we look is not what we click!

Cheers!

[Tygre]

@gertsy

Actually, our eyes move constantly (or almost) and their movements can be divided between saccades and fixations, based on physiological thresholds. For most people, a saccades is an eye movements under 200 ms, above that threshold it is considered a fixation: the moment during which the light is captured by the eyes and a signal transfered to the brain. The Soviets even did funny experiments in their time, gluing micro-projectors on people eyes...

@Astral

Eye-tracking has many, many useful applications in lots of domains, regaring people with impairment, look at what it can do for Stephen Hawking: http://iq.intel.com/iq/26909838/how-intel-helps-stephen-hawking-communicate-with-the-world

Cheers!

[Tygre]

I wonder if Stephen Hawking would be able to use this?  Hook it up to Say on his Amiga and he'll have a whole new world of communication tools available to him!  

It definitely could have been, but apparantly he is/was using a PS/2... Think about what he could do with a Minimig these days