GazeBoard - Eye Tracking and text entry using only an ordinary webcam

Description

GazeBoard is a free eye-tracking software witch enables eye-tracking and text entry through ordinary webcam. It is designed to serve severely disabled people and do gaze tracking with low spatial resolution.

GazeBoard main advantages are his features:

• Tracking Eyes using ordinary WebCam
• Gaze tracking
• Text entry
• Head 3D Phose
• Touchless Eye Interface
• Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)

URL:

1. ​http://gazerecorder.christiaanboersma.com/gazeboard/
2. ​https://sourceforge.net/p/gazeboard/wiki/Home/

Prerequisites for using this software - Software/Hardware :

• Webcam

• .NET 3.5

Project Anatomy

Community: GazeRecorder community

Leadership: user: szydej, link: ​https://sourceforge.net/u/szydej/profile/

Forking: Fork your own copy: git clone ​https://git.code.sf.net/p/gazeboard/code gazeboard-code

Communication: There is a forum for general discussion available at: ​https://sourceforge.net/p/gazeboard/discussion/general/, and the also have a facebook page: ​https://www.facebook.com/gazerecorder/.

Roadmaps:

Original goal:

• bundles of code for a large range of different eye trackers from different manufacturers into a single interface.
• open-source based on excisting libraries

Future goals:

Short term:

• better variable management and getting rid of some annoying bugs
• an analysis suite to complement the existing experimental library

Long term:

• incorporate support for more eye trackers and support for even more obscure peripherals
• support for electroencephalography

Source: Interview with lead developer: ​https://opensource.com/life/15/12/pygaze-open-source-eye-tracking-toolkit

Releases:

1. Behavior Research Methods, December 2014, Volume 46, Issue 4, pp 913–921 | Cite as PyGaze: An open-source, cross-platform toolbox for minimal-effort programming of eyetracking experiments - ​https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13428-013-0422-2
2. Edwin S. Dalmaijer, Sebastiaan Mathôt, Stefan Van der Stigchel, 2013 - ​http://www.pygaze.org/resources/downloads/Dalmaijer_Mathot_Stigchel_2013_PyGaze_manuscript.pdf
3. Dalmaijer, E.S., Mathôt, S., & Van der Stigchel, S. (2013). PyGaze: an open-source, cross-platform toolbox for minimal-effort programming of eye tracking experiments. Behaviour Research Methods. doi:10.3758/s13428-013-0422-2

Repositories:

The main repository of PyGaze is: ​https://github.com/esdalmaijer/PyGaze , where you can download the source code, clone it to desktop, or even make your own fork. There is also a repository for PyGazeAnalizer available at: ​https://github.com/esdalmaijer/PyGazeAnalyser

Packaging:

Different packages for PyGaze, including Windows, Linux and Mac OS X packages can be found at the downloads page of PyGaze: ​http://www.pygaze.org/downloads/

Upstream/downstream:

So far, from 2013 when it was originaly published, PyGaze has 12 contibutors, and it is open for contributing for upstream, after of course your pull request is revised and approved.

Version Control:

version 0.6.0 (07-09-2017) - Latest version control

Trackers:

You can see commits and verified changes at this link: ​https://github.com/esdalmaijer/PyGaze/commits/master

Project Evaluation

Fieldtrips

Github: ​https://github.com/esdalmaijer/PyGaze

Openhub: / (PyGaze is not listed here)

Source Forge: / (PyGaze is not listed here)

Evaluation

Licensing: GNU Public License (version 3)

Language: Python

Activity: Active

Number of contributors: There are two developers and a couple of official contributors. They are listed on this page: ​http://www.pygaze.org/contributors/

Size: There aren't any official releases on GitHub, you can find out the size of the packages from the download page after you download them. ​http://www.pygaze.org/downloads/

Issue tracker: There is a forum where you can write about an issue: ​http://forum.cogsci.nl/index.php?p=/categories/pygaze and there is the issue tracker on GitHub: ​https://github.com/esdalmaijer/PyGaze/issues

New contributor: If you want to be a contributor to PyGaze one way is through the GitHub page, where you can make your own fork and pull request and wait for an approval.

Community norms: You can report an issue through the forum page , help to fix it by forking in the GitHub repository and commit fixes and if you prefer to work via different channels (contact form, or via carrier pigeon), that’s fine too.

User base: Their user base are the developers and the contributors: ​http://www.pygaze.org/contributors/

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