Navigate with your eyes in Google Maps

[pierre]

Google Maps is now available in Gazespeaker with the new version 0.9.3.

Visit famous places, Manhattan or the Pyramids in Egypt, Versailles and the Eiffel Tower.

Navigate with your eyes: the map automatically adjust the center of the map according to where you look.

You can also zoom, modify the type of map between the 4 different representations available within Google Maps: Map, Map with terrain, Satellite, Hybrid (satellite view with city names and roads).

Gazespeaker is free. Download at http://www.gazespeaker.org

Watch the video on Youtube:
http://youtu.be/BwZ3YCo73RE

[JeffKang]

Navigate with your eyes: the map automatically adjust the center of the map according to where you look.

Awesome. Thanks for adding this.

[Martin]

Very cool. Thanks for sharing. I'll have to try it out once I get back to the office.

[JeffKang]

Accumulate dwell time: resume dwell time after looking away – prevent restarting of dwell (it is a feature of GazeTalk, a text entry system)

At 1:29 of the video, “Gazespeaker eye tracking and Google maps” (http://youtu.be/BwZ3YCo73RE?t=1m29s), a user has the intention of activating the “See Map” icon, but the user has to keep on restarting their dwell, as the point of gaze keeps on leaving the hit state of the target.
It takes five dwell attempts in order to activate “See Map”.

GazeTalk – free, predictive text entry system

GazeTalk is a free, predictive text entry system by Gaze Group: http://wiki.cogain.org/index.php/Gazetalk_About.

Notable feature of GazeTalk: accumulate dwell time: resume dwell time after looking away

If any jumpiness from eye tracking, or if a brief, voluntary withdrawal causes the fixation on an intended button to be interrupted, GazeTalk has the option to recognize a resumption of the dwelling, and continue building the dwell time for that particular button.
GazeTalk has an "Accumulate dwell time" function to “avoid the re-setting of a button”.
That is, you don’t have to start over again.
A successful activation of one button resets partial dwell time buildups in any other buttons.

http://www.gazespeaker.org/topic/accumu ... estarting/

[pierre]

Thank you Jeff, this is an excellent idea.

Indeed we will include this feature to avoid losing the dwell selection inadvertently or because there was some involuntary eye movement detected in the eye tracking position.

It seems easy to implement (already did the change in the dwell algorithm and it works fine). We will do additional tests and release a new version with this feature in the next release planned next week.

Pierre

[pierre]

We have updated our open-source software Gazespeaker and it is now available for download (http://www.gazespeaker.org).

We have also added many improvements and new features during the summer for this new version: support of 28 languages, 16 Microsoft Speech voices + support of SAPI 5 voices, 5 visual themes, multi-user, advanced customization capabilities (> 40 general and user settings), code signing (avoid security warnings), automatic updates, increased performances and robustness, …

Downloads have been improved (files are hosted on Amazon S3 + cloudfront).

Pierre

[JeffKang]

Thanks Pierre.