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Twenty years of eye typing: systems and design issues

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Päivi Majaranta,

Kari-Jouko RäihäAuthors Info & Claims

ETRA '02: Proceedings of the 2002 symposium on Eye tracking research & applications

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https://doi.org/10.1145/507072.507076

Published: 25 March 2002 Publication History

Abstract

Eye typing provides a means of communication for severely handicapped people, even those who are only capable of moving their eyes. This paper considers the features, functionality and methods used in the eye typing systems developed in the last twenty years. Primary concerned with text production, the paper also addresses other communication related issues, among them customization and voice output.

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