Introduction

The project that we chose is named Patient Eye Tracking Interface and the idea of it is:

Due to the large number of patients with various motor and speech impediments or paralysis, the medical staff has developed a system that helps them communicate with these kinds of patients. The system is based on the movement of a patient's eyes and eyelids. For example, the medical staff wants to determine where the pain is on a patient's body. The patients using eye or eyelid movement can answer a series of questions addressed by the medical staff.

The medical staff needs a team of developers to propose an implementation of this system on a mobile device: tablet or Smartphone.

We  are trying to create a program that can go past yes and no answers(ex: blink once means yes, blinking twice means no); we know from our  experience that some questions can be answered so easily (ex: Who are you?/Where are you from?/Where does it hurt?/What do you need ?/Can you describe the pain?/Was somebody  with you at the time of the accident?(Who?)/How do you feel?). We know that more accurate answers can help some procedures, and it may save time , and we know that  some surgical procedure are time sensitive.

We think that giving that patient a larger set of words may shorten the time to solve some problems and even create an easier way for patients to communicate with other people.

The program is developed by using Morse code and eyelid movement algorithm, by blinking in a sequence that the patient can write words and even sentences. At first, this may prove to be difficult but if the patient learns the Morse code it is a very easy way to communicate words. The interface over time can save words or phrases and that simplifies the use for the patient, over time the user can select the word without using the interface of writing.

For people that don’t prefer this way of communicating we develop another way of writing words  by blinking; we have a sequence of letters that is displayed over a panel  and the patient can pick letter by letter to create words. A solution to simplify some problems related to time we try to develop a library that may auto-complete some words which he may try to use, idea that could save time on writing words .

We all read some documentation about this subject and as far as we came across we didn’t come pass this idea, so we think that this is something that may work even in real life, which is the reason that we started this project.