In 2001, Cybernet created NaviGaze, which is capable of tracking a person’s head and detecting eye blinks. The head movements are used to control the mouse cursor and the eye blinks are used to produce mouse clicks. The system was designed for use by seriously disabled individuals (who had no motor control of their hands). http://www.cybernet.com/products/about.html http://www.asc2004.com/23rdASC/summaries/m/MP-05.pdf --- The Eyes Have It NASA program develops a system that tracks eye movements for cursor control From: Government Computer News - 08/09/204; Vol. 23 No. 22 By: Wilson P. Dizard III NASA is exploring new frontiers in accessibility with a program that could give disabled users line-of-sight control over their computer screens. The space agency has provided funding to create a system that tracks head and eye movements to register cursor movements and clicks. Developers plan to provide the system free to the public. Officials at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., have developed the system under a Small Business Innovation Research contract with Cybernet Systems Corp. of Ann Arbor, Mich. NaviGaze allows people who lack arm or hand mobility to control cursor movements with simple head movements. It can be customized to support a wide range of head mobility, the system’s developers said. Read the entire article at: http://www.gcn.com/23_22/cover/26868-1.html --- UseYourHead is Cybernet's low-cost introduction to the world of gesture recognition. Download and install our UseYourHead software, and you can be assigning keyboard macros to your head movements in just minutes. Duck your head left and right in games as you make the same motion in real life. Autosave your term paper when you look down at your notes. Move your field of view in a flight simulator without ever looking away from the monitor. The uses for UseYourHead are limited only by your imagination, and at a low $9.95 download price, you can experiment with gesture recognition technology without a major investment! (A USB camera is required.) http://www.gesturecentral.com/useyourhead/ --- The Eyes Have It From: Government Computer News - 08/09/2004 - Vol. 23, No. 22 By: Wilson P. Dizard III NASA has committed funding to develop a low-cost system that would enable severely disabled users to control their computers by tracking head and eye movements. NaviGaze, developed by Goddard Space Flight Center officials in conjunction with Cybernet Systems under a Small Business Innovation Research contract, translates the user's eye movements into cursor movements using a commercial USB camera. Cybernet research engineer Ryan J. O'Grady explains that NaviGaze's gesture recognition programs "recognize" the image of an individual user's eye during a two-minute setup session and searches for that image through the USB-linked camera in later sessions; after the system locks on to the image, the user can control the on-screen cursor with his head movements. At the top of the screen is an indicator displaying the status of the blink control: A single mouse click is colored green, a double click is colored yellow, and a click and drag function--which the user can implement by blinking for four seconds--is colored red. NaviGaze can also be used by people with limited control of eye blinks via its ability to track and monitor other movements, such as mouth gestures. In addition, the system allows a different user to control the cursor using a mouse linked to the Microsoft Windows system. Once the system has been polished, Cybernet executives plan to make it freely available for download at cybernet.com in October. Cybernet R&D director Joseph Tesar hopes that NaviGaze can be turned into a program that permits users to control lights and doors in a house. http://www.gcn.com/23_22/cover/26868-1.html