A wearable, wireless gaze tracker with integrated selection command source for human-computer interaction

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 795-801

  Rantanen, Ville ^a   Vanhala, Toni ^b   Tuisku, Outi ^a   Niemenlehto, Pekka Henrik ^c   Verho, Jarmo ^a   Surakka, Veikko ^a   Juhola, Martti ^a   Lekkala, Jukka ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^c NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Assistive technology; capacitive facial movement detection; gaze tracking; humancomputer interaction; multimodal interaction

Indexed keywords

ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; FACIAL MOVEMENTS; GAZE TRACKING; HUMAN-COMPUTER; MULTI-MODAL INTERACTIONS;

COMPUTER HARDWARE; EXPERIMENTS; EYE MOVEMENTS; HANDICAPPED PERSONS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; HUMAN; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); VISION;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; MOVEMENT; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 80052594446     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2011.2158321     Document Type: Article

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