AsTeRICS Camera Mouse

Objective

Mouse control (moving mouse cursor, clicking and dragging) by head movements.

Description

By moving the head up/down or left/right the mouse cursor should move accordingly. A left click is performed by dwelling (stopping movement and waiting for some time). To do a right, double or drag click select the respective button in the ARE GUI and move the cursor to the location where the click should be performed at. The mouse speed can be changed by using the slider. Click on the On/Off button to toggle mouse control.

Video frame showing face with tracked nose and chin

Requirements

Integrated Webcam or USB camera
AsTeRICS 3.0 installed and ARE running
OS: Windows, Linux (incl. RPi), Mac OSX

Start Model

Start AsTeRICS Runtime Environment (ARE)

Windows: ARE.exe
Linux / Mac OSX: asterics-are

You can adjust the many settings below and save them as default for the next ARE start.

General Settings

Camera:

Mouse Movement

Mouse Speed: 1 100

Smoothing Degree: 1 50

Clicking

Movement Radius: 1 20

Dwell Time [ms]: 1 5000

Mouse Activation Pattern

Click on screen quadrants to create a mouse activation pattern.

Mouse Activation Pattern:

Switch Inputs

Switch1 Key: Switch1 Action:

Button Actions

On-Screen Keyboard

Install an On-Screen Keyboard of your choice and enter the path of the executable here.

Recommendations:

osk.exe: Windows default On-Screen Keyboard.
OptiKey: On-Screen Keyboard optimized for Eyetracking.
Staggered Speech: On-Screen Keyboard from Boston College.
Midas Touch: On-Screen Keyboard from Boston College.

Launch Command: Launch Arguments:

Close Command:

Button Labels

Button1 Text:

Button2 Text:

Button3 Text:

Button4 Text:

Button5 Text:

Button6 Text:

Button7 Text:

Button8 Text:

Major Plugins

Edit Model

Open in WebACS

Source Repository

You can fork and modify this repository.