Gaze-controlled driving

  • Authors:
  • Martin Tall;Alexandre Alapetite;Javier San Agustin;Henrik H.T Skovsgaard;John Paulin Hansen;Dan Witzner Hansen;Emilie Møllenbach

  • Affiliations:
  • IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark;Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark;IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark;IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark;IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark;IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark;Loughborough University, Loughborough, England UK

  • Venue:
  • CHI '09 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We investigate if the gaze (point of regard) can control a remote vehicle driving on a racing track. Five different input devices (on-screen buttons, mouse-pointing low-cost webcam eye tracker and two commercial eye tracking systems) provide heading and speed control on the scene view transmitted from the moving robot. Gaze control was found to be similar to mouse control. This suggests that robots and wheelchairs may be controlled "hands-free" through gaze. Low precision gaze tracking and image transmission delays had noticeable effect on performance.