Tuesday, May 28, 2013: Over the years we have seen how innovation has played its part in enabling the visually impaired to function like a regular person. A team of college students has developed a device that enables the physically handicapped to use a computer without using a mouse.
According to a TOI report, four final-year electronics and communication engineering students from Mangalore, have created an ‘Eye mouse’ device that ensures people without any physical strength to access their computer. These students are Shruthi Shettigar, Prasad Nayak, Vanishri and Sandhya Shet of the Srinivas Institute of Technology (SIT) who have developed the device under the guidance of their HoDs.
To get the device working, students have also developed an app which is installed inside a computer with a webcam connected to a light-dependent resistor circuit fixed to a chair.
So this is how Eye Mouse works. When a person needs to use the computer, he will sit on this chair, which starts-up the computer and the webcam captures the person’s eyeball movements. Then the recorded video is uploaded to the app. Once this is done, the individual can use the computer without using a mouse.
Eye Mouse may sound futuristic and expensive but interestingly, the four students have spent a meager Rs 5,000 on the project. Currently, they are looking to patent, so that they are able to sell the device in the market.
