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Thomas E Doyle, Zdenek Kucerovsky, and William D Greason (2006)

Design of an electroocular computing interface

In: 2006 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, pp. 1458–1461, IEEE.

The human retina consists of an electrically-charged nerve membrane. This potential is a constant value for a given adaptation without stimulation; it is the retinal resting potential. The retinal resting potential causes an electric field around the eyeball, centered on the optical axis, which can be measured by placing electrodes near to the eye. As a result, the motion of the eye causes a measurable change of DC voltage between the surface electrodes. The same vector coordinate system employed in the modern computer mouse may be adapted for use with our electro-ocular interface. Such a device would provide a relative position of gaze and have application in both hands-busy and assistive research. The theory behind our device, hardware design, the experimental results, and efficacy of the system are presented

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