The focus of visual attention in people with motor disabilities through Eye tracking

Abstract

Make the environment that can be achieved, fires, used and experienced by anyone, including those with reduced mobility, is an increasingly important need for professionals. Being the eye tracking is an assistive technology that enables you to identify objectively the visual perception was held an experiment that allows analyzing the people’s difficulties in internal visual identification on buildings. The article goal is to identify the focus of visual attention in people with motor disabilities using eye tracking glasses. To perform the experiment was used Senso Motoric Instruments (SMI) eye tracking glasses and was did analyses with the BeGaze software version 3.6. The results indicate the lack of visual information causes difficulties for people to locate and identify the correct route for the offset inside a building, reducing the subjectivity in making decisions to make accessible environments. The tests show that the participants do not have fixed their gaze on specific points, because it remained looking for visual information into the building generating lack of orientation and difficulties to define the right route at offset. With this experiment was possible to validate an application of the device to contribute to the decision-making process of professionals to make accessible environments. In addition, they recognized the particularities in the use of Assistive Technology, the glasses eye tracker, and the possibility of being used in the analysis of various tasks contributing in the Design, in the Architecture, and the Engineering.

The Design of an Intelligent Robotic Wheelchair Supporting People with Special Needs, Including for Their Visual System

“…The conducted experiments proved that the device is very efficient in terms of performance and cost-effective due to all the components used as part of the device [ 33 ]. In [ 34 ], eye tracking devices were used to develop an application that can help architects and designers to make accessible environments for people with motor disabilities that can have problems identifying and selecting the correct route when navigating inside buildings. Michael A. E et al conducted a series of experiments involving an eye-controlled wheelchair in which twelve amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients participated.…”