Button Selection for General GUIs Using Eye and Hand Together

This paper proposes an efficient technique for eye gaze interface suitable for the general GUI environments such as Microsoft Windows. Our technique uses an eye and a hand together: the eye for moving cursors onto the GUI button (move operation), and the hand for pushing the GUI button (push operation). In order to make our technique more effective for the general GUI environments, we also propose the following two techniques to assist the move operation: (1) Automatic adjustment and (2) Manual adjustment. In the automatic adjustment, the cursor automatically moves to the closest GUI button when we push a mouse button. In the manual adjustment, we can move the cursor roughly by an eye, then move it a little more by the mouse onto the GUI button. In the experiment to evaluate our method, GUI button selection by manual adjustment showed better performance than the selection by a mouse even in the situation that has many small GUI buttons placed very closely each other on the GUI. Keywor...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: AVI
• Authors: Masatake Yamamoto, Akito Monden, Ken-ichi Matsumoto, Katsuro Inoue, Koji Torii
• Keywords: AVI 2000, Eye Gaze Interface, General Gui Environments, Gui Button, Software Engineering