2010/10/11 Ben Taylor <[email protected]> > Firstly, let me apologize if this is not an appropriate place to post this > question. > >> > I'm working on a project for a class in Speculative Fiction Studies. Our > assignment is to find a topic that interests us as a basis for a Science > Fiction "universe" and do some research into what is known about it in > reality right now. On that note, I was wondering if you might be able to > answer a few quick questions. The topic I have chosen centers around > eye/head/gesture tracking as a computer interface method. I found this > address on > http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/02/23/painless-accessibility-tips-for-gnome-designers-and-developers/ > with > a mention of eye and head tracking, and I was wondering if someone could > fill me in as to the current state and future plans for those technologies > in GNOME. Do you see these interface methods as ones that could be adapted > for broader use over time, or are the mouse and keyboard here to stay? How > do you see these interfaces changing the way we use computers? On a final > note, there are two broad categories of Science Fiction - Hard and Soft. > Hard SF focuses its stories around the technology, and pays careful > attention to realism and detail, while Soft SF tends to use the technology > as a means of telling a more human-centric story. Which sort of story do > you see this sort of interface lending itself to? > >> > Thank you all very much for your time, and again my apologies if this isn't > an appropriate place to pose the question(s). > >> > --Ben Taylor > ([email protected] <[email protected]> > > Hi Ben,
About the soft. categories I know about and Enable Viacam[2] and last week I also knew, at 1st AEGIS a11y conference, about the OpenGazer[1] project. OpenGazer provides you head/eyes/gesture_switch tracking with ordinary webcams. I know it's not mature but you can try it. Enable viacam it's quite simple, providing only a way for moving the pointer with head tracking. Enable Viacam it's providing motoric a11y in the Guadalinfo project, a network of internet access centers in Andalusia (Spain) with about 5k machines. Cheers! [1] http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/opengazer/ [2] http://eviacam.sourceforge.net/eviacam_es.php -- http://fontanon.org
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