Eye-Controlled Interfaces for Multimedia Interaction

In the digitized world, interacting with multimedia information occupies a large portion of everyday activities; it’s now an essential part of how we gather knowledge and communicate with others. It involves several operations, including selecting, navigating through, and modifying multimedia, such as text, images, animations, and videos. These operations are usually performed by devices such as a mouse or keyboard, but people with motor disabilities often can’t use such devices. This limits their ability to interact with multimedia content and thus excludes them from the digital information spaces that help us stay connected with families, friends, and colleagues. In this paper, we primarily focus on the gaze-based control paradigm that we’ve developed as part of our work at the Institute for Web Science and Technologies (WeST) within the scope of MAMEM project. We outline the particular challenges of eye-controlled interaction with multimedia information, including initial project results. The objective is to investigate how eye-based interaction techniques can be made precise and fast enough to not only allow disabled people to interact with multimedia information but also make usage sufficiently simple and enticing such that healthy users might also want to include eye-based interaction