FaceMOUSE is innovative software, created and developed by AIDA. It allows physically disabled people to use the mouse and command the computer without using their hands. To manage to control a mouse means being able to perform a variety of activities, among which writing, communicating with other people, playing, surfing the Internet, interact with other home utilities (such as the telephone) and much more.

Engineer Simone Soria (disabled person affected by serious spasmodic tetraparalysis and AIDA’s president) started the development of this project within his final graduation thesis, at University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, with the purpose of suggesting a valid alternative to scanning systems and to E.T.R.A.N., famous non-electronic communication tool for very serious disabled.

To drive the mouse with FaceMOUSE you just need to be seated in front of a small webcam connected to your PC and move your head (or better, a part of it, like nose, chin, lips…): the cursor will be moving in real time.

 

“FaceMOUSE” doesn’t require the use of external switches or sensors to apply over your body, it analyzes images trough a common PC webcam and converts motions (e.g. of your head, nose or chin) into cursor’s movements on your screen, depending on user’s motoria ability.

Also, with FaceMOUSE, it is possible to pilot the mouse with every part of the body you can control correctly (like a hand, an arm, a leg, feet,…), by applying to it a colored marker.

FaceMOUSE introduce an innovative way to pilot the mouse and to click, in comparison with other aids (for more information contact you the inventors of FaceMOUSE). Therefore FaceMOUSE is suitable for a greater number of disabled people

 

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