Eyegaze Edge Cal Knowles What is the Eyegaze
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Eyegaze Edge Cal Knowles
What is the Eyegaze Edge? �Device that helps those with limiting physical, cognitive, and/or speaking disabilities to communicate and perform other tasks �Can access the internet, turn text to speech, play games, control computers, and even other tasks like turning on/off lights
What are the components? �Basic versions include a monitor and camera to track the users eye movement and relay the information of the user’s selection �Almost all versions include speech synthesis, keyboards, and special programs to change settings as well teach the user
Pictures of the Eyegaze Edge
Who uses the Eyegaze Edge? �The Eyegaze Edge is commonly used by those with cerebral palsy, a spinal cord injury, brain injury, ALS, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, and many other disorders �Users must have good control of their eyes, as well as their head
How to use it? �The user simply stares at a rectangular button on the screen that has an option written on it �Most are set up so that it takes less than a second for an option to be selected, however this time can be changed by the user �The calibration process takes less than a minute
Eyegaze Edge in action Uses Eyegaze Edge to communicate in the classroom Uses the Eyegaze Edge system to write letters and books
Disadvantages �The system doesn’t work in sunlight since it uses infrared light to analyze where the user is looking �Price ranges from 8000 to 12000 dollars �Those with poor eye and control are unable to use the system
The study �The study took 10 girls with Rett syndrome aging from 4 years old to 13 to see how efficiently they could follow orders and see if they were carried out by the Eyegaze Edge �All the girls did relatively well and the results proved to be accurate enough to be efficient in the majority of the cases
Sources �Concepts of Color, Shape, Size and Position in Ten Children with Rett Syndrome (2009). Web. 24 Apr. 2010. �http: //www. eyegaze. com/