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openEyes: a low-cost head-mounted eye-tracking solution

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Derrick J. ParkhurstAuthors Info & Claims

ETRA '06: Proceedings of the 2006 symposium on Eye tracking research & applications

Pages 95 - 100

https://doi.org/10.1145/1117309.1117350

Published: 27 March 2006 Publication History

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Eye tracking has long held the promise of being a useful methodology for human computer interaction. However, a number of barriers have stood in the way of the integration of eye tracking into everyday applications, including the intrusiveness, robustness, availability, and price of eye-tracking systems. To lower these barriers, we have developed the openEyes system. The system consists of an open-hardware design for a digital eye tracker that can be built from low-cost off-the-shelf components, and a set of open-source software tools for digital image capture, manipulation, and analysis in eye-tracking applications. We expect that the availability of this system will facilitate the development of eye-tracking applications and the eventual integration of eye tracking into the next generation of everyday human computer interfaces. We discuss the methods and technical challenges of low-cost eye tracking as well as the design decisions that produced our current system.

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openEyes: a low-cost head-mounted eye-tracking solution
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction paradigms

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ETRA '06: Proceedings of the 2006 symposium on Eye tracking research & applications

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DOI:10.1145/1117309

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