Gaze beats mouse: hands-free selection by combining gaze and emg

Julio C. Mateo; Javier San Agustin; John Paulin Hansen

Gaze beats mouse: hands-free selection by combining gaze and emg

Julio C. Mateo, Javier San Agustin, John Paulin Hansen

Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

Abstract

Facial EMG for selection is fast, easy and, combined with gaze pointing, it can provide completely hands-free interaction. In this pilot study, 5 participants performed a simple point-and-select task using mouse or gaze for pointing and a mouse button or a facial-EMG switch for selection. Gaze pointing was faster than mouse pointing, while maintaining a similar error rate. EMG and mouse-button selection had a comparable performance. From analyses of completion time, throughput and error rates, we concluded that the combination of gaze and facial EMG holds potential for outperforming the mouse.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems : CHI '08 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Publication date	2008
Pages	3039-3044
ISBN (Print)	978-1-60558-012-X
Publication status	Published - 2008
Event	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2008 - Florence, Italy Duration: 5 Apr 2008 → 10 Apr 2008 Conference number: 26th http://www.chi2008.org/

Conference

Conference	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2008
Number	26th
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Florence
Period	05/04/2008 → 10/04/2008
Internet address	http://www.chi2008.org/

Keywords

Facial EMG
Gaze pointing
Hands-free interaction
Point-and-select task
Human-computer interaction

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Mateo, JC, San Agustin, J & Hansen, JP 2008, Gaze beats mouse: hands-free selection by combining gaze and emg. in Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: CHI '08 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems. Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 3039-3044, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2008, Florence, Italy, 05/04/2008.

Gaze beats mouse: hands-free selection by combining gaze and emg. / Mateo, Julio C.; San Agustin, Javier; Hansen, John Paulin.
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: CHI '08 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems. Association for Computing Machinery, 2008. p. 3039-3044.

Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

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