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

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. CR Categories: H.5...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: ETRA
• Authors: Dongheng Li, Jason S. Babcock, Derrick Parkhurst
• Keywords: Digital Eye Tracker, ETRA 2006, Eye Tracking, Eye Tracking Research, Eye-tracking Applications