Week 14

"If a person has control over any function, it can also be used to control the computer"

Personally I have seen two other methods for the impaired that weren't mentioned in the wiki, that are still in their earlier stages, but could potentially offer a solution already, if we were to adapt current technology towards that purpose. Those two being eye trackers and brain wave readers.

 

Eye trackers are quite self explanatory, they are able to detect where you are looking and thus possibly giving input as a mouse by looking at certain things for a period of time combined with certain head movement. Could also be used as keyboard input the same way, having certain space to look at and repeating head motion to bring up a keyboard and type. I think this could potentially be faster and more effective, but the downside being that it's gonna cost more than a special keyboard or mouse would.

3: Different types of eye trackers, a) Remote eye tracker, b)... | Download Scientific Diagram

Brain wave readers is probably not the best way to describe the technology, but did not manage to find a proper name for such a device, probably because that type of technology and studies are much earlier in its stages than eye trackers and other common input types. Main point being that it would work by thinking about certain actions and the brain giving off certain frequencies at specific parts of the brain and thus resulting in an input. While this is the least commercial ready and most expensive option, it is also the most effective and in some cases the only option for a person who is unfortunate enough to have that little function left in their bodies that they would only be capable of thinking.

Cade Metz of The New York Times testing the Neurable prototype.


References: 

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Different-types-of-eye-trackers-a-Remote-eye-tracker-b-Headmounted-eye-tracker_fig3_334389877

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/27/technology/thought-control-virtual-reality.html

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