For High-Tech Control, the Eyes (and Hands) Have It
From: EE Times - 04/11/2005 - No. 1366, P. 6
By: R. Colin Johnson

Computer interfaces that use eye-tracking and gesture recognition
technologies were demonstrated last week at ACM's CHI 2005 conference, whose
overriding theme was "Technology, Safety, and Community," according to Vrije
University Amsterdam professor and conference Chair Gerrit van der Veer. Roel
Vertegaal and David Fono of Ontario's Queen's University presented
EyeWindows, an interface that combines eye-tracking software and a
traditional keyboard to remove the clutter from multi-windowing interfaces,
and which was reported to be 72 percent faster than manual window management.
The interface automatically highlights a window as the user's eyes focus on
that window, but waits for the user to hit a key to activate it.

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Links:
EyeWindows Citation:
David Fono and Roel Vertegaal. EyeWindows: Evaluation of Eye-Controlled
Zooming Windows for Focus Selection. In Proceedings of ACM CHI 2005
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Portland, OR: ACM Press,
2005 (in press).