Is there a decent eye tracking package to replace the mouse for code editing?
I want to free up the mouse, but keep using my keyboard for editing code.
Having done some research on it, I concluded that proper eye tracking hardware is expensive. Using a webcam or high resolution video camera seems to be the most viable option.
Unfortunately, image-based tracking (as opposed to infra-red tracking) restricts the accuracy, and so not all features might be practical.
Desired eye-tracking IDE features:
- Page scrolling
- Tab selection
- Setting cursor position
- Selecting gaze-focused text with keyboard
A similar question recommends Opengazer for webcams, but I am particularly interested in speeding up basic text-editing. Any recommendations are appreciated, especially if you have experience with eye tracking and practical use cases.
Eye Tribe has a $99 consumer-level eye tracker that is available now.
Eye Tribe is a spinoff of Gaze Group, a research group located at the IT University of Copenaghen. The people of Gaze Group developed the open-source ITU GazeTracker software, which allows people to turn low-cost webcams into eye trackers.
http://www.gazegroup.org/downloads
Upon looking at the “downloads” section for Gaze Group, it seems that there are already some eye tracking applications to do some basic actions.
melhosseiny mentioned the Text 2.0 framework for creating eye tracking apps using HTML, CSS and JavaScript, and the Universal eye-tracking based text cursor warping feature for placing the text cursor at the most salient target.
Eye Tribe has its own SDK, but those things above could help if they work with Eye Tribe.