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http://dx.doi.org/10.5143/JESK.2011.30.1.229

A New Ergonomic Interface System for the Disabled Person  

Heo, Hwan (Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Dongguk University)
Lee, Ji-Woo (Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Dongguk University)
Lee, Won-Oh (Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Dongguk University)
Lee, Eui-Chul (Division of Fusion and Convergence of Mathematical Sciences, National Institute for Mathematical Sciences)
Park, Kang-Ryoung (Division of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Dongguk University)
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Journal of the Ergonomics Society of Korea / v.30, no.1, 2011 , pp. 229-235 More about this Journal
Abstract
Objective: Making a new ergonomic interface system based on camera vision system, which helps the handicapped in home environment. Background: Enabling the handicapped to manipulate the consumer electronics by the proposed interface system. Method: A wearable device for capturing the eye image using a near-infrared(NIR) camera and illuminators is proposed for tracking eye gaze position(Heo et al., 2011). A frontal viewing camera is attached to the wearable device, which can recognize the consumer electronics to be controlled(Heo et al., 2011). And the amount of user's eye fatigue can be measured based on eye blink rate, and in case that the user's fatigue exceeds in the predetermined level, the proposed system can automatically change the mode of gaze based interface into that of manual selection. Results: The experimental results showed that the gaze estimation error of the proposed method was 1.98 degrees with the successful recognition of the object by the frontal viewing camera(Heo et al., 2011). Conclusion: We made a new ergonomic interface system based on gaze tracking and object recognition Application: The proposed system can be used for helping the handicapped in home environment.
Keywords
Ergonomic Interface; The Handicapped; Eye Fatigue;
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