Evaluation of a low-cost open-source gaze tracker

Javier San Agustin; Henrik Skovsgaard; Emilie Mollenbach; Maria Barret; Martin Tall; Dan Witzner Hansen; John Paulin Hansen

doi:10.1145/1743666.1743685

Evaluation of a low-cost open-source gaze tracker

Javier San Agustin^*, Henrik Skovsgaard, Emilie Mollenbach, Maria Barret, Martin Tall, Dan Witzner Hansen, John Paulin Hansen

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Abstract

This paper presents a low-cost gaze tracking system that is based on a webcam mounted close to the user's eye. The performance of the gaze tracker was evaluated in an eye-typing task using two different typing applications. Participants could type between 3.56 and 6.78 words per minute, depending on the typing system used. A pilot study to assess the usability of the system was also carried out in the home of a user with severe motor impairments. The user successfully typed on a wall-projected interface using his eye movements.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of ETRA 2010 : ACM Symposium on Eye-Tracking Research and Applications
Number of pages	4
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publication date	2010
Pages	77-80
ISBN (Print)	9781605589947
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1743666.1743685
Publication status	Published - 2010
Externally published	Yes
Event	ACM Symposium on Eye-Tracking Research and Applications, ETRA 2010 - Austin, TX, United States Duration: 22 Mar 2010 → 24 Mar 2010

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Conference	ACM Symposium on Eye-Tracking Research and Applications, ETRA 2010
Country/Territory	United States
City	Austin, TX
Period	22/03/2010 → 24/03/2010
Sponsor	ACM SIGGRAPH, ACM SIGCHI

Keywords

Augmentative and alternative communication
Gaze interaction
Gaze typing
Low cost
Off-the-shelf components

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Evaluation of a low-cost open-source gaze tracker. / San Agustin, Javier; Skovsgaard, Henrik; Mollenbach, Emilie et al.
Proceedings of ETRA 2010: ACM Symposium on Eye-Tracking Research and Applications. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2010. p. 77-80.

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San Agustin, J, Skovsgaard, H, Mollenbach, E, Barret, M, Tall, M, Hansen, DW & Hansen, JP 2010, Evaluation of a low-cost open-source gaze tracker. in Proceedings of ETRA 2010: ACM Symposium on Eye-Tracking Research and Applications. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 77-80, ACM Symposium on Eye-Tracking Research and Applications, ETRA 2010, Austin, TX, United States, 22/03/2010. https://doi.org/10.1145/1743666.1743685

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