DesktopEye

[Olavz]

I have been working on a prototype to switch between on screen processes in Windows 8.

The DesktopEye (lack of name creativity) is a prototype to easy access and changing between window processes. It uses the eye tracker from The Eye Tribe to record eye position and trigger a menu to show when looking in the bottom left corner. The menu will build it self from running processes present as windows on the desktop. By looking at the menu entries, it will trigger the process to show and be brought to front. When looking upwards and away from the menu will result in automatically closing the menu.

http://olavz.com/desktopeye-an-eye-tracking-prototype/

Screen shot:


Download as Visual Studio project: DesktopEye.zip

[Martin]

Hi Olavz,

Thanks for sharing!
Works pretty good on my Windows 7 desktop with a 27" monitor.

Do you know if it's possible to grab screenshots of minimized windows?

[Olavz]

Hi Martin

Cool you checked it out and that it works

I did have a brief look into it and there is a lot of posts regarding this feature in the Aero introduced in Windows Vista, but I dint get to any solution.

My instincts tell me it should be possible to retrieve this information from the OS.

[janeborodat]

Hello,
I would like to try it but how to run it on win7 (for nondevelopers)?

[Olavz]

Check out the bin/debug/DesktopEye.exe

If you get it running, you must press ctrl+ alt+ del to stop process.

[Javier]

Hey Olav,

Nice job with your app, it's simple and useful.

Since you are providing the code already, it would be great if you could put it on GitHub or similar so other people (including us) can also contribute to it

[Olavz]

Hi Javier

Tried to get it going on https://github.com/Olavz/DesktopEye

Thanks!