Some of the Weirder Ideas From CHI 2009

An anonymous reader writes "Technology Review has a roundup of some of the weirder ideas on show at last week's Computer-Human Interaction conference in Boston. They include a trackball that heats up as you roll over different parts of an image, a pair of goggles that track eye movements using electrooculography, and a miniature robot with a cellphone for its head."

Re:Tracking Eye Movements

[Anonymous Coward]

You might want to look at opengazer

http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/opengazer/ [cam.ac.uk]

For a while development had been abandoned but that disclaimer has now disappeared from the website so I imagine someone is working on it.

The same people created the dasher text input system which is really worth having a look at as an example of innovative input methods.

http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/ [cam.ac.uk]

Re:Pair eye tracking with contacts?

[Anonymous Coward]

Your eye already has markings with can be tracked.