Microsoft published a new patent for a device called the Eye-Gaze, which would allow users to communicate and interact with electronic devices without the use of hands and fingers for typing.

#microsoft #patent #eyegaze #accessibility
https://tchlp.com/3Pjpnwe

🔖PUBLICATION DAY
#openaccess paper: "The ability of typically developing 2–3 year olds to infer the control mechanism for #eyegaze technology & the impact of causal language instruction" in Disability & Rehab: Assistive Technology

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17483107.2023.2293874

The paper looks at whether young children can intuitively acquire control mechanisms for operating #eyegaze technology & what impact instruction has on performance. Findings may support those working with early eye-gaze users 👀

On the Fire Max 11 tablet
Amazon has given us something new
It's Eye Gaze function
That stays in motion
Now Alexa we can all view

#amazon #firemax11 #accessibility #eyegaze #limerick #poetry

https://www.engadget.com/amazon-debuts-eye-gaze-accessibility-features-on-the-fire-max-11-tablet-154042714.html

Some interesting insights here into how interaction with the @Apple #VisionPro will work: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2023/10073/?time=741

#eyegaze seems to work by gazing and "clicking" via a hand movement - similar to using a switch-to-click in #assistivetech

Encouraging to hear that developers are encouraged to consider alternative forms of access that users may need, and to factor this into their designs.

Excited to be putting the finishing touches to my AAATE 2023 extended conference abstract - great programme for #AssistiveTech professionals and researchers coming up in Paris later this year: https://aaate2023.eu

#AAATE2023 #Accessibility #eyegaze #cerebralpalsy

created by drawing with my eyes. I ALS and am a quadriplegic. This drawing is done using #eyegaze camera and ArtRage app.

#als #alswarrior #alsawareness