FaceMOUSE software allows people with different motoria handicaps
to write, to communicate with other people, to use the computer and
to carry out commands by them selves, without using hands or voice.
FaceMOUSE is the only help for many motoria
disabilities: it fits both to people with little motoria
capacity or uncontrolled muscle spasms who are not able to use normal
input devices correctly and often don’t find mouse emulators
that solve their problems.
Even if FaceMOUSE is adaptable to different motoria
disabilities, it is essential that the person was able to
focus the attention on PC screen (if comfortably positioned), in order
to make choices in an intentional way.
FaceMOUSE allows 3 different ways of use which can be
chosen in line with user’s handicap gravity.
1) People without difficulties in controlling the face (or a body
part) and people who are able to move their face/body to the 9 directions
(up, down, right, left, up-right, up-down, …), even if they
are not able to stand still in a point (like other tools require!).
2) People who are not able to move their face/body to the 9 standard
directions, as said before, but are able to move their body in 2 or
more positions whatever they are. In this case FaceMOUSE follows people’s
movements.
3) People with very high level of handicap, thus people who are able
to move their face just in two positions, which can be freely chosen.
For example, with this technique even who can only open and shut his
or her mouth can use FaceMOUSE.