[ACM Press the 2010 Symposium - Austin, Texas (2010.03.22-2010.03.24)] Proceedings of the 2010 Symposium on Eye-Tracking Research & Applications - ETRA '10 - Evaluation of a low-cost open-source gaze tracker

✍ Scribed by San Agustin, Javier; Skovsgaard, Henrik; Mollenbach, Emilie; Barret, Maria; Tall, Martin; Hansen, Dan Witzner; Hansen, John Paulin

• Book ID: 121359271
• Publisher: ACM Press
• Year: 2010
• Weight: 280 KB
• Category: Article
• ISBN: 1605589942
• DOI: 10.1145/1743666.1743685

✦ Synopsis

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.