Ability Drive™ – Drive your wheelchair with your eyes
Edition 80, November 2022
Innovative Ideas
Ability Drive™ is a control interface that enables you to drive and adjust seating on a powered wheelchair with your eyes. Using virtual buttons and eye gaze technology, people who are not able to use a joystick can regain movement independence. eye gaze technology, people who are not able to use a joystick can regain movement independence.
The Ability Drive™ app runs on an approved eye gaze device. The app senses your gaze on virtual buttons which sends directional movement commands to the Ability Drive™ hardware interface. These buttons are overlaid on the forward camera view. Looking at the stop button, looking away from the computer, or closing your eyes stops wheelchair movement.
Originally featured in Access and Inclusion through Technology
http://www.accessandinclusion.news/
https://www.closingthegap.com/ability-drive-drive-your-wheelchair-with-your-eyes/