Some Eye Tracking Solutions for Severe Motor Disabilities

In present society, Accessibility issues are being more and more considered, towards a world where everybody will benefit from technology and communication services. Nevertheless, accessible interfaces are still a very difficult achievement, especially for severely-disabled people. In this paper we propose eye tracking as a means to make up for the missing capabilities of disabled persons, as well as to improve the machine-user interaction process in “traditional” activities based on keyboard and mouse. Through the description of some of the projects we have recently developed at the University of Pavia, we will show how eye-based interfaces can be extremely useful to accomplish several activities.