Winklick
At a glance
- What
- An interface that operates an Android phone with the eyes alone.
- Why
- Someone with quadriplegia cannot touch the screen, and gaze by itself settles where to look but not when to press.
- How
- It follows the gaze trajectory through a webcam to place the point, takes a wink as the press signal, and injects the touch event over ADB.
- New
- Together they cover the whole design space of single-point touch — tap, long press, drag — using eyes and eyelids only.
What was built
Winklick is a new interaction design for smartphones and wearables that can generate single-point touch events with eye movements and blinks. Winklick enables people with paralyzed limbs to fully control smartphones with a front-faced camera.