look mom, eye tracking with no glasses!

a quick update from the office with the new eyewriter 2.0 design in which ito tag’s “GRL” :

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we we’re quite lucky to have a visit from Amit Pitaru, who discussed his work creating interfaces and software to help students with various disabilities play video games.  It was quite an inspiring lecture about assistive technology, his research and process and how it could relate to the development of the eyewriter.

This class we were quite lucky to have a visitor who is an expert in assistive tech, Mark Surabian. He gave a great lecture / demo, which started with the willowbrook scandal and gave a general overview of the assistive tech landscape. He said something I personally found very touching, that the key to assistive tech is “empathy not sympathy”

In addition, he gave a good overview of the eyegaze system, and eye tracking generally.  He also demoed some interesting eye tracking interfaces (for typing and computer control).

an incomplete but almost a full shot of the eyewriter collab rocking their glasses: