Description ======= Some physically impaired users are not able to use the mouse, so an alternative input system is required. web-cams are a really common and cheap device these days (most of modern laptops include it), so one option is use a webcam to track the motion of any object visible by the camera and moves the mouse cursor according to the path of the tracked object (a user's head, for example).
Module proposed =========== In order to fulfill this feature, we propose eViacam (Enable Viacam) [1]. eViacam is a mouse replacement software that moves the pointer as you move your head. It works on standard PCs equipped with a web camera. No additional hardware is required. Based on the award winning Facial Mouse software. eViacam is a mature tool, with several years of development, with a user base, and active help forums. It was also reported that it works fine with other GNOME related modules like Dasher. Owner ==== César Mauri Involved parties ========== Accessibility team Current Status ========= As I said on the module proposal this is an already mature tool, so towards 3.4 the basic issues is about the integration with GNOME. * Repositories: right now it is on sourceforge. This shouldn't be a blocker thought. * Bugzilla: pending (but probably we should wait until this feature is approved) * Look and feel: some people could not agree with current interface [2]. This shouldn't be a blocker thought. And finally, the main concern could be about the graphical toolkit. eViacam uses wxWidgets [3][4], in order to ensure a native look and feel on both Windows and Linux systems. wxGTK is the most common wxWidgets port, meaning that it will be using Gtk+ native widgets wherever possible. This feature proposal would include the proposal of wxWidgets as a external dependency. Note === In addition to wxwidgets, eViacam has also dependencies with opencv and libv4l1, that should be included as external dependencies. [1] http://eviacam.sourceforge.net/eviacam.php [2] http://sourceforge.net/projects/eviacam/#screenshots [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wxwidgets [4] http://wxwidgets.org/ -- Alejandro Piñeiro Iglesias _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
