About Camera Mouse Suite

The classical Camera Mouse is a free program that enables you to control the mouse pointer on your computer screen just by moving your head (or foot or finger). It can be downloaded at our sister wesite www.CameraMouse.org

The Camera Mouse Suite is the "beta version" or "research version" of Camera Mouse. It is free and provides a suite of programs, including the classicial version of the Camera Mouse. The Camera Mouse Suite provides the additional functionality:

Blink Detection: The standard Camera Mouse produces mouse clicks if the mouse pointer is stationary for a period of time. If you hold the mouse pointer over a button for a set amount of time, usually a second, then the Camera Mouse will click on the button. With the Camera Mouse Suite, the user can click by blinking. To click, the user must close his or her eyes for a while (0.5 seconds or longer) so that the computer can distinguish this voluntary blink from (much shorter) involuntary blinks.
Eyebrow Clicker: The Camera Mouse Suite can produce mouse clicks when the user raises his or her eyebrows.
Participate in Research: Users can participate in our research study and help further improve the Camera Mouse. A user can agree to participate in our research through our system. If the user agrees, the Camera Mouse Suite will start sending information to our server about the usage of the Camera Mouse Suite. The user can specify the level of information to send. Messages include tracking loss events, mouse pointer locations, and click events. Images will not be sent. We will carefully maintain the users' privacy. The collected information will be invaluable to build a large scale database of interaction information. We plan to search for patterns in the mouse pointer trajectories and click events using data mining techniques that will enable us to improve the interface.

Downloads

Documents:
You may download Camera Mouse 2011 Manual, a two-page brochure on Camera Mouse, and a manual explaining the additional functionality of the Camera Mouse Suite: Camera Mouse Suite 1.0 Manual.

Videos:
Video demonstrating Eyebrow Clicker & Blink Detection
Video on handling setup problems

Software:
Camera Mouse Suite 1.1

Research Papers

E. Missimer, S. Epstein, J. J. Magee, and M. Betke. "Customizable keyboard." In The 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2010), Orlando, Florida, USA, October 2010. Abstract. pdf.

S. Epstein, M. Betke. Active Hidden Models for Tracking with Kernel Projections, Department of Computer Science Technical Report BUCS-2009-006, Boston University. March 10, 2009. Abstract. pdf.

The published material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grants 0713229, 0093367, and 0202067 and the Office of Naval Research under Grant N000140110444. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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