Will we control smartphones with our eyes in the future? Just when we are well used to skating on the screen, radical changes are in store for us. A new stage in the evolution of smartphones and tablets is iTracker, a mobile software that allows you to track and control your mobile device with your eyes. A group of researchers from the American Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the German Max-Planck-Gesellschaft are working on the project.
Will we control smartphones with our eyes in the future? American and German researchers want to "train" the software so well (iTracker), so that it will be able to detect the movement of our eyes and determine where we are looking on the smartphone or tablet screen (current recognition accuracy viewing direction is estimated at approx. one centimeter for a phone and 1.7 cm for a tablet).
At first it was supposed to be this kind of management intended for entertainment, i.e. playing games, but later iTracker could also be used for everything else, among other things, the technology would also come in handy in medicine (the detection of eye movements is said to help in the diagnosis of schizophrenia and other nervous system diseases).
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iTracker researchers currently at approx. ten thousand people collect data on their smartphone viewing habits (what they are focusing on, at what angle they are looking, etc.) in order to reduce misjudgment of viewing direction on half a centimeter.
