Study on New Man-Machine Interface-Eye Mouse-Using Automatic Eye-Tracking Technique

新型人机界面——眼鼠——利用自动眼动追踪技术的研究

基本信息

批准号：
08458084
负责人：
MAEDA Junji
金额：
$ 3.2万
依托单位：
Muroran Institute of Technology
依托单位国家：
日本
项目类别：
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
财政年份：
1996
资助国家：
日本
起止时间：
1996 至 1997
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-08458084/
关键词：
man-machine interface eye mouse eye-tracking system

项目摘要

The purpose of this research is to investigate the development of a new man-machine interface, which we call an eye mouse, that uses an automatic eye-tracking of the user of a computer.Firstly we have developed an interface system which connects the eye-tracking system with the computer. The digital signal from the eye-tracking system that is composed of the motion and the distance of eye movements toward the horizontal and vertical directions is transferred to the computer. Then, the signal is processed in order to superimpose the movements of the eye as the movements of the cursor on the computer display. It took long time to develop a software that handle the signal because we have scarcely no references. We have successfully achieved to control the movements of the cursor on monitor that is synchronized with the movements of the eye of the user.We have recognized the impirtance of the calibration and the effect of shifting the head of the subject through the experiments. At the beginning of the experiment, the calibration has to be made that controls the gain of the signal from the eye-tracking system in order to fit the extent of the eye-movements into the area of the cursor-movements on the monitor. Since the head-shift of the subject produces the shift of the position of the cursor, the area the cursor can move will deviate from the standard position on the monitor. As a result, the whole system is strongly affected by the head-shift of the subject. The problem of head-shift is relieved to a certain extent by using the apparatus that fixes the chin of the subject. However, it was shown that we have found another solution to overcome the above problem.

这项研究的目的是研究一种新的人机界面的开发，我们称之为“眼睛鼠标”，它使用计算机用户的自动眼球跟踪。首先，我们开发了一种连接眼睛的界面系统- 带有计算机的跟踪系统。来自眼球跟踪系统的数字信号由运动和眼球向水平和垂直方向移动的距离组成，被传输到计算机。然后，对信号进行处理，以便将眼睛的运动叠加为计算机显示器上光标的运动。由于我们几乎没有参考资料，所以花了很长时间来开发处理信号的软件。我们已经成功地实现了控制显示器上光标的移动，使其与用户眼睛的移动同步。通过实验，我们认识到校准的重要性以及移动受试者头部的效果。在实验开始时，必须进行校准来控制来自眼睛跟踪系统的信号增益，以使眼睛运动的范围适合显示器上光标运动的区域。由于被摄体的头部移动会导致光标位置的移动，因此光标可以移动的区域将偏离监视器上的标准位置。结果，整个系统受到主体头部移动的强烈影响。通过使用固定受检者下巴的装置，可以在一定程度上缓解头部偏移的问题。然而，事实证明我们已经找到了另一种解决方案来克服上述问题。