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Gyro-Mouse for the Disabled: 'Click' and 'Position' Control of the Mouse Cursor  

Eom, Gwang-Moon (School of Biomedical Engineering, Konkuk University)
Kim, Kyeong-Seop (School of Biomedical Engineering, Konkuk University)
Kim, Chul-Seung (School of Biomedical Engineering, Konkuk University)
Lee, James (Airwalk Communications, Inc.)
Chung, Soon-Cheol (School of Biomedical Engineering, Konkuk University)
Lee, Bong-Soo (School of Biomedical Engineering, Konkuk University)
Higa, Hiroki (Department of Electric and Electronics Engineering, University of Ryukyus)
Furuse, Norio (Miyagi National College of Technology)
Futami, Ryoko (Tohoku University)
Watanabe, Takashi (Information Synergy Center, Tohoku University)
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International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems / v.5, no.2, 2007 , pp. 147-154 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper describes a 'gyro-mouse', which provides a new human-computer interface (HCI) for persons who are disabled in their upper extremities, for handling the mouse-click and mouse-move function. We adopted the artificial neural network to recognize a quick-nodding pattern of the disabled person as the gyro-mouse click. The performance of our gyro-mouse was evaluated by three indices that include 'click recognition rate', 'error in cursor position control', and 'click rate per minute' on a target box appearing at random positions. Although it turned out that the average error in cursor positioning control was 1.4-1.5 times larger than that of optical mouse control, and the average click rate per minute was 40% of the optical mouse, the overall click recognition rate was 93%. Moreover, the click rate per minute increased from 35.2% to 44% with repetitive trials. Hence, our suggested gyro-mouse system can be used to provide a new user interface tool especially for those persons who do not have full use of their upper extremities.
Keywords
Click; gyro-mouse; mouse-click; mouse-move; position;
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