OptiKey – Full computer control and speech with your eyes

Re:OptiKey – Full computer control and speech with your eyes by pavel_lishin on Thursday September 10, 2015 @12:40PM (#10199083)

I wonder if it really matters with your eyes vs. your hands and fingers. Flicking your gaze around the keyboard seems much easier than moving your fingers around - you'll never have two fingers hitting each other.

And on the other end of the speed spectrum, it seems like it's unlikely that this will ever quite be as quick as operating even a QWERTY keyboard with fully functional hands.

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Re:OptiKey – Full computer control and speech with your eyes by melling on Thursday September 10, 2015 @12:55PM (#10199178)

This tool is for people who can't use their hands, of course.

For the average person, we're pretty close to being able to use voice instead of typing.

https://www.extrahop.com/blog/2014/programming-by-voice-stay...

http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/using_voice_to_code.html

Throw in eye tracking and precise gestures (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QNiZfSsPc0) and the keyboard isn't necessary.

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Re:OptiKey – Full computer control and speech with your eyes by tcdent on Thursday September 10, 2015 @03:38PM (#10200098)

Instead of coming home from the office with Carpal Tunnel we'll be coming home with hoarse voices. Color me skeptical.

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Re:OptiKey – Full computer control and speech with your eyes by melling on Thursday September 10, 2015 @11:06PM (#10201797)

Some people will gladly take a hoarse voice. Ever see someone have to resort to using their nose?

http://www.looknohands.me

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Re:OptiKey – Full computer control and speech with your eyes by learc83 on Thursday September 10, 2015 @02:56PM (#10199862)

There's also this http://voicecode.io/

I'm waiting for the windows version to be released, so I don't have any first hand experience. The videos look promising though.

I use Dragon and python extensions to supplement typing for now.

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Re:OptiKey – Full computer control and speech with your eyes by hasenj on Thursday September 10, 2015 @01:49PM (#10199463)

Thanks for the Project Soli video!

Mind blown!

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Re:OptiKey – Full computer control and speech with your eyes by surge on Thursday September 10, 2015 @04:36PM (#10200387)

If we're talking about what's optimized for eyes and the movement of them, you wouldn't even want a keyboard layout, you'd want something more like a dart board or oval shaped dartboard where the spaces are letters and the most common letters are towards the center. QWERTY is fine for someone familiar with it, like an experienced typist whose already mapped those keys mentally, but I expect someone with a lifelong disability would have no true familiarity with QWERTY (since they can't type) and would have to learn any layout from scratch anyway, so you might as well start from scratch.

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Re:OptiKey – Full computer control and speech with your eyes by adiabatty on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @10:52AM (#10227024)

Someone did start from scratch, almost: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FITALY

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Re:OptiKey – Full computer control and speech with your eyes by fsiefken on Friday September 11, 2015 @02:10AM (#10202234)

There were keyboard layouts optimized for palmos pen input; fitaly and atomik. The most used letters are clustered in the middle so movements is minimized, theoretically speeding up the eye typing as well. It seems to be a faster entry method then using a switch like Stephen Hawking does or using a single switch morse type system at perhaps 20 wpm, but indeed much slower then having 10 fingers (switches) and perhaps two feet available at the same time.

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