EyeTell: Tablet-based Calibration-free Eye-typing using Smooth-pursuit movements

Tanya Bafna; Per Bækgaard; John Paulin Paulin Hansen

doi:10.1145/3448018.3458015

EyeTell: Tablet-based Calibration-free Eye-typing using Smooth-pursuit movements

Tanya Bafna, Per Bækgaard, John Paulin Paulin Hansen

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Gaze tracking technology, with the increasingly robust and lightweight equipment, can have tremendous applications. To use the technology during short interactions, such as in public displays or hospitals to communicate non-verbally after a surgery, the application needs to be intuitive without requiring a calibration. Gaze gestures such as smooth-pursuit eye movements can be detected without calibration. We report the working performance of a calibration-free eye-typing application using only the front-facing camera of a tablet. In a user study with 29 participants, we obtained an average typing speed of 1.27 WPM after four trials and a maximum typing speed of 1.95 WPM.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the ETRA '21 Short Papers
Number of pages	6
Publisher	ACM
Publication date	2021
Article number	24
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3448018.3458015
Publication status	Published - 2021

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