What is ‘eyewriter’ ? The EyeWriter project is an ongoing collaborative research effort to empower people who are suffering from ALS with creative technologies.
It is a low-cost eye-tracking apparatus & custom software that allows graffiti writers and artists with paralysis resulting from Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to draw using only their eyes.
I got interested with assistive technologies a while ago because my good friend Daniil’s work on speech disorders. I think that there’s still a lot more to be discovered on the intersection between ART and Science and Technology. Use our creative minds to deal with a variety of issues and disabilities. I really believe that there is a creative solution for almost everything. All we need to do is collaborate more. Share more. Artists can and should use open-source and DIY resources in their work as much as possible, spread the collaborative spirit and find solutions faster. This project is the perfect example for such productive collaborative research effort of artists, engineers, and more people who cares enough to do. It is amazing what they did for this fellow. Even though that this eye-tracking technology exist for a couple of years and was utilized in a number of art installations, this is by far the best & most important implementation of this combination of technology and art. You will probably have a laugh but watching this clip made me want to go out to a near by hospital and look for problems that I could solve with creative thinking.
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