Support head, any body part -tracking input

For users with physical disabilities, one solution to replace the traditional mouse may be to track head or other body part movements. For example, tilting your head to the left may move the pointer to the left on the screen, while a blink might equal a mouse click.

Please note that these products are not necessarily endorsed by RtF, but represent the range of available options.

Open Source and free

These products are free and their source code may be modified with few restrictions.

• MouseTrap

Free, not necessarily open source

These products are free to use, but may have strict restrictions on viewing and modifying source code.

• Camera Mouse – Camera Mouse
• NaviGaze – CyberNet

Commercial, with free trial

These products are free to try for a limited period of time or with limited functionality. They must be purchased for full functionality.

• FaceMouse- CLARO

• Towards Hands-Free Interfaces Based on Real-Time Robust Facial Gesture Recognition – Cristina Manresa-Yee, Javier Varona, and Francisco J. Perales (2006)
• Head Gestures Recognition – Pei Chi Ng and Liyanage C. De Silva (2001)
• Recognition of Head Gestures Using Hidden Markov Models – Carlos Morimoto, Yaser Yacoob, Larry Davis (1996)
• The Camera Mouse: visual tracking of body features to provide computer access for people with severe disabilities-M. Betke, J. Gips, P. Fleming
• Access Interface Strategies- Susan Fager, David R. Beukelman, Melanie Fried-Oken, Tom Jakobs PE, John Baker
• Assistive Multimodal System Based on Speech Recognition and Head Tracking- Alexey A. Karpov, Andrey L. Ronzhin, Alexander I. Nechaev, Svetlana E. Chernakova
• A multimodal human computer interface combining head movement, speech and tongue motion for people with severe disabilities- M.N Sahadat; Arish Alreja; Pooja Srikrishnan; Maysam Ghovanloo