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Evaluation of a low-cost open-source gaze tracker

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ETRA '10: Proceedings of the 2010 Symposium on Eye-Tracking Research & Applications

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1743666.1743685

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This paper presents a low-cost gaze tracking system that is based on a webcam mounted close to the user's eye. The performance of the gaze tracker was evaluated in an eye-typing task using two different typing applications. Participants could type between 3.56 and 6.78 words per minute, depending on the typing system used. A pilot study to assess the usability of the system was also carried out in the home of a user with severe motor impairments. The user successfully typed on a wall-projected interface using his eye movements.

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ETRA '10: Proceedings of the 2010 Symposium on Eye-Tracking Research & Applications

March 2010

353 pages

ISBN:9781605589947

DOI:10.1145/1743666

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Carlos Hitoshi Morimoto
University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
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De Montfort University, UK
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University of Tampere, Finland
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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