Eye Type
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About Eye Type
The Eye Type application allows users to input text to a mobile device, using only
the movements of their eyes. Application was developed for the IEEEmadC 2015 (Mobile
Application was developed for the IEEEmadC 2015 (Mobile Application Development Contest) http://ieeemadc.org/ and it won the Computer Society Special Award!
Developer: Evangelos, Greece, IEEE Region 8
Link to demonstration video: https://youtu.be/6KOoxkY7KBc
APPLICATION DESCRIPTION
This mobile application aspires to be a step towards ubiquitous gaze tracking
using handheld devices. The ultimate goal is to assist people with ALS, lock -in
syndrome, tetraplegia or any other people that can only move their eyes with using
their handheld device to communicate, browse the Internet or facilitate other
everyday tasks.
The eye type application consists of a visual keyboard, whose keys are “clicked”
by estimating the user‟s gaze (line of sight). Instead of using the traditional
QWERTY keyboard layout, which would make it very hard to accurately
determine which key the user is looking at, the application's main layout
comprises of a several large keys. Text is composed using predictive text input,
which depends on the combination of the keys clicked (each containing a specific
subset of letters). The visual keyboard layout consists of four keys at the corner
of the screen containing the letters of the alphabet equally distributed (hence
making them “ambiguous” keys) and three control keys (in order to accept a
word, correct mistypings and scroll through the predicted words).
DESCRIPTION OF USE
The eye type application works optimally on large screen devices such as tablets.
The user is asked to maintain his head still during the eye typing session. In order
to facilitate this, an object such as a large book may be used as a chin rest. The
illumination must be adequate so that the eyes of the user are correctly detected.
The user presses the „calibrate‟ button in order to calibrate the system and then
can start typing using their gaze. During the calibration phase, green dots appear
successively at certain points on the screen, followed by red shrinking dots. The
green dots remain visible for ~1 second and aim to prepare the user to direct his
gaze towards that point. When the red shrinking dots appear, the positions of the
eyes of the user are captured. Thus, in case the user needs to blink, he should do
so when the green dots appear.
Once the calibration session is completed, the typing view containing the visual
keyboard automatically appears and a magenta-colored circle indicates the
position of the gaze estimations. The user directs his gaze on the keys containing
the letters he wants to input. A button on the screen is considered as clicked upon
fixation on it for a specific time interval (~1 second) and momentarily turns green.
A disambiguation/predictive text engine predicts the desired word and allows the
user to either accept it, or select an alternative suggestion. As the user continues to
type, the predictive text engine attempts to determine which word the user means
to input and also offers alternative predictions (list of suggestions).
the movements of their eyes. Application was developed for the IEEEmadC 2015 (Mobile
Application was developed for the IEEEmadC 2015 (Mobile Application Development Contest) http://ieeemadc.org/ and it won the Computer Society Special Award!
Developer: Evangelos, Greece, IEEE Region 8
Link to demonstration video: https://youtu.be/6KOoxkY7KBc
APPLICATION DESCRIPTION
This mobile application aspires to be a step towards ubiquitous gaze tracking
using handheld devices. The ultimate goal is to assist people with ALS, lock -in
syndrome, tetraplegia or any other people that can only move their eyes with using
their handheld device to communicate, browse the Internet or facilitate other
everyday tasks.
The eye type application consists of a visual keyboard, whose keys are “clicked”
by estimating the user‟s gaze (line of sight). Instead of using the traditional
QWERTY keyboard layout, which would make it very hard to accurately
determine which key the user is looking at, the application's main layout
comprises of a several large keys. Text is composed using predictive text input,
which depends on the combination of the keys clicked (each containing a specific
subset of letters). The visual keyboard layout consists of four keys at the corner
of the screen containing the letters of the alphabet equally distributed (hence
making them “ambiguous” keys) and three control keys (in order to accept a
word, correct mistypings and scroll through the predicted words).
DESCRIPTION OF USE
The eye type application works optimally on large screen devices such as tablets.
The user is asked to maintain his head still during the eye typing session. In order
to facilitate this, an object such as a large book may be used as a chin rest. The
illumination must be adequate so that the eyes of the user are correctly detected.
The user presses the „calibrate‟ button in order to calibrate the system and then
can start typing using their gaze. During the calibration phase, green dots appear
successively at certain points on the screen, followed by red shrinking dots. The
green dots remain visible for ~1 second and aim to prepare the user to direct his
gaze towards that point. When the red shrinking dots appear, the positions of the
eyes of the user are captured. Thus, in case the user needs to blink, he should do
so when the green dots appear.
Once the calibration session is completed, the typing view containing the visual
keyboard automatically appears and a magenta-colored circle indicates the
position of the gaze estimations. The user directs his gaze on the keys containing
the letters he wants to input. A button on the screen is considered as clicked upon
fixation on it for a specific time interval (~1 second) and momentarily turns green.
A disambiguation/predictive text engine predicts the desired word and allows the
user to either accept it, or select an alternative suggestion. As the user continues to
type, the predictive text engine attempts to determine which word the user means
to input and also offers alternative predictions (list of suggestions).
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More downloads Eye Type reached 100 000 - 500 000 downloads
What are users saying about Eye Type
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It doesn't work at all (I can't even get a letter). When starting the app, it says you should have a big phone for optimal use... I have a Note 5 and it still won't work well.
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Oh my God what a nightmare... I appreciate the attempt, but it would take the computational power of an entire server farm to make this technology work... Not to mention the fact that you would need stereo cameras to read both eyes accurately...
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Doesn't work if you wear glasses.. lol. It is a cool concept, but it doesn't really work, needs A LOT of updating before it can be used with little error.
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What are you even supposed to do type random words for no purpose?! And the cursor just flies around the screen like crazy. I see no point in this app.
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Just twitches everywhere and doesn't really do anything useful. Good idea but the implementation isn't good
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With a little more tweaking and adjustments, and extra hardware,this app can really help people who can't type properly!
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Nice try It needs work but its a great idea for future tech that might be closer than we think! :p
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Great app in Dev. It's a fully functioning app within reach #1 getting the software to be slightly more accurate. And #2 waiting until front phone cameras have a fast enough refresh rate to track the fast movements of the human eye.
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Couldn't write anything yet but it's a wonderful idea especially for people that can't use the keyboard! Well done
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It needs a lot of fixing.This would be a great app, but the cursor is really jumpy and doesn't track the movement well.
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Really waste app. Please don't download waste of time.
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Algorithms are not completely correct and slow face detection this app need too much improvement
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I like this but I can't see the suggestion list. Which basically makes this whole thing useless. Pls update this
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Sir improvement is needed help each other to make better future of click
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It was terrible and boring and there was nothing to do don't get it I'm deleting it right now.
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It is hard to callibrate on any device, it was hard for me to type words because the app is so slow
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the cursor going crazy...its not following the way i look...i follow if were it goea
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this is an amazing attempt.it's works ,but needs precision, you are not supposed to move ur head
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Ghatiya h bhai dwnld krke time pas krne ki na koi zarurt nahi h Smjh leyo
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It just types as its wish. Fake
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The worst app i have ever seen
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Not understanding how to enter a letter but the tracking is excellent
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Hit and miss on smaller screens, though this is a breakthrough and hopes this will improve and get even more development
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Great potential. Not upto the mark yet. But i wasnt using this on a tablet so maybe that's why it wasnt working 98% of the time
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Not good for me. Uninstalled
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Works pretty well even for 20 seconds of calibration! Works decent on my 5.5" screen.
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Didn't work, but anything in this area is well appreciated.
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Only one pad and not working
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Too bad app it's harmfull
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Doesn't work at all
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It is only saying tuvwxy
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Just doesnt work
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not good but still blp to finx eyes proper
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Unusable .. upside down
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Just black screens in landscape and never loads.
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Η υλοποίηση θέλει δουλίτσα, αλλά έχει τρομερό potential αν καταφέρεις να το κάνεις κανονικό App! Μπράβο!
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change a job
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Πολυ καλή ιδέα
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The cursor doesn't follow my eyes and always thinks I'm looking somewhere else. All I could type was gibberish. I think it's an amazing idea though,I only wish it worked as well in real life as it does in theory.