Eyecan+ from Samsung is an Eye Controlled Mouse to help disabled users

Samsung EYECAN+, a special eye mouse

Samsung Electronics, couple of years before revealed Eyecan – a special eye mouse that acted as a mouse replacement. Now the latest from the company is the second-generation eye mouse termed EYECAN+ that helps people with disabilities to work on the system with ease, which is they can browse through the web, compose and edit documents and do other functions with just moving their eyes.
EYECAN+ as boosted by the company is the first of its kind, the user doesn’t need to wear any devices such as glasses or so here.  This is a single unit device, a portable box that gets fixed below the monitor and by wirelessly calibrating with the user’s eye it works.
On comparing with EYECAN, its predecessor that got introduced in March 2012, EYECAN+’s calibration sensitivity and the on-the-whole user experience is very much upgraded. The upgrade credit partly goes to a by-birth quadriplegic computer science graduate student of Yonsei University in Seoul, Hyung-Jin Shin. Shin worked with Samsung in 2011-12 on EYECAN and there on took on a key role in developing EYECAN+ UX accompanying with the testing phase of the eye mouse over a period of 17 months. He had been working with the Samsung engineers extensively to reach out with the final phase of the EYECAN+ that is practically easy in usage.
With EYECAN+ as it can be used even while sitting or lying down, it is not required for the users to take up a specific posture but to be in a position between 60cm and 70cm from the monitor. Only first time users need to calibrate with the device as it can memorize every user’s eye characteristics. Sensitivity of EYECAN+ can also be adjusted by users for both usage and calibration.

EYECAN+ can be used even while sitting or lying down

18 commands and usage of EYECAN+:

Once the EYECAN+ is calibrated there appears 18 different commands in its user interface that gets shown as a pop-up menu either in a rectangular menu board or in a floating menu wheel. Configuring both the menu types at the front of the screen is possible.
The 18 commands supported by the device are “select all”, “copy” and “paste,” along with “zoom in”, “scroll” and “drag and drop.” Also custom commands can be created additionally to go about with existing keystroke commands like the “print” (“Ctrl+P”) and “close program” (“Alt+F4”). Using these 18 commands just needs the user’s eye movement and blink, by looking exactly on a relevant icon and blinking at it can start executing the function of the particular icon.
According to Samsung Electronics Vice President of Community Relations, SiJeong Cho this Eyecan+ is their engineers’ voluntary project’s result that shows out their commitment and passion to have more people in their community. Samsung at present has no plans to have this Eyecan+ commercialized, but the South Korean company is to manufacture a limited quantity of this device to be donated to charity organizations. Also it has got plans to have this technology and eye mouse design to be open sourced, in a way to help organizations and companies that wish to have this device commercially available. For more Information check out http://techliveinfo.com