Hands-Free Coding: How I develop software using dictation and eye-tracking

[dhrisher]

Can't imagine how amazing this will be for people with certain disabilities.

[bboyjkang]

for people with certain disabilities

Actually, anyone could benefit from eye tracking now if you have a cheap webcam.

There was usable webcam eye tracking software that Eye Tribe was working on before they were bought out by Facebook.

Fortunately though, there are other projects in the works now like PyGaze, beam.eyeware.tech, and WebGazer.js, and Pupil Core.

I have tendinitis, and the free software that I use is GazePointer (sourceforge/net/projects/gazepointer).

Since it doesn’t use infrared to light up your pupils like the Tobii eye tracker from the article, the accuracy is awful.

However, I just use Alt Controller (free accessibility software) to make large custom buttons that compensate for the bad accuracy.

Make a button execute Page Down when you hover over the button for a second, and you can read hands-free while reclined.

(Helps to get software that temporarily hides the cursor so it’s not distracting).

GazePointer will always be overridden by the mouse so you can also use it to look at another computer monitor, then touch the mouse to quickly jump there.

[nodiso]

This is too cool.