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Autofocals: gaze-contingent eyeglasses for presbyopes

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Nitish Padmanaban,

Robert Konrad,

Gordon WetzsteinAuthors Info & Claims

SIGGRAPH '18: ACM SIGGRAPH 2018 Emerging Technologies

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Published: 12 August 2018 Publication History

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Presbyopia, the loss of accommodation due to the stiffening of the crystalline lens, affects nearly 20% of the population worldwide. Traditional forms of presbyopia correction use fixed focal elements that inherently trade off field of view or stereo vision for a greater range of distances at which the wearer can see clearly. However, none of these offer the same natural refocusing enjoyed in youth. In this work, we built a new presbyopia correction, dubbed Autofocals, which externally mimics the natural accommodation response by combining data from eye trackers and a depth sensor, and then automatically drives focus-tunable lenses. In our testing, wearers generally reported that the Autofocals compare favorably with their own current corrective eyewear.

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Autofocals: gaze-contingent eyeglasses for presbyopes
1. Hardware
  1. Communication hardware, interfaces and storage
    1. Sensor applications and deployments
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Accessibility
    1. Accessibility technologies
  2. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. HCI design and evaluation methods
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DOI:10.1145/3214907

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