Usability and performance of selected configurations of eye tracking sets in augmentative and alternative communication – case study

• Authors: Anna Stolińska , Mariusz Noga

Title variants

PL

Użyteczność i wydajność wybranych konfiguracji zestawów eyetrackingowych w AAC – studium przypadku

Abstracts

PL

Rozwój nowych technologii przyczynił się do powstania nowych narzędzi, które umożliwiają osobom niepełnosprawnym komunikację z otoczeniem, w tym korzystanie z zasobów sieci internetowej oraz edukację. W dzisiejszych czasach, kiedy tak wiele osób przeniosło swoją aktywność, w tym zawodową, do środowiska sieciowego, nawet osoby z ograniczoną sprawnością ruchową i mową mogą aktywnie funkcjonować w społeczeństwie. W artykule przedstawiono i porównano aplikacje, które w połączeniu z urządzeniami rejestrującymi ruch gałek ocznych mogą stanowić pomoc w doskonaleniu umiejętności obsługi komputera. Przedstawiono rozwiązania, które nie wymagają dużych nakładów finansowych. Wykazano, że są one bardzo wartościowe, a świadczą o tym testy wydajnościowe oraz ocena użyteczności poszczególnych konfiguracji sformułowanych przez użytkownika niemogącego mówić i zdiagnozowanego od urodzenia z czterokończynowym porażeniem mózgowym. Informacje zawarte w artykule mogą być wykorzystane przez osoby, które chcą umożliwić swoim podopiecznym samodzielną komunikację przy niewielkich nakładach finansowych.

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The development of new technologies has contributed to the creation of new tools which enable disabled persons to communicate with their surroundings, including use of internet network resources and education. Nowadays, when so many people have moved their activity, including their professional activity, into the network environment, even people with limited mobility and speech can function actively in society. Applications, which coupled with equipment recording eye movement may provide an aid to improving computer skills, are presented and compared in the paper. Solutions that do not require large financial resources are presented. These are shown to be very valuable, and this has been demonstrated by performance tests and a usability assessment of particular configurations formulated by a user unable to speak and diagnosed with quadriplegic cerebral palsy since the birth. The information provided in the article can be used by persons who want to enable their charges to communicate independently with a small financial outla

Keywords

EN

human-computer interaction; eye tracking; alternative; communication; electronic aids; performance tests

PL

interakcja człowiek-komputer; eye tracking; komunikacja alternatywna; pomoce elektroniczne; testy; wydajnościowe.; .; JEL Classification: I1; ASJC: 1706; Introduction

• Publisher: Wyższa Szkoła Ekonomii i Informatyki w Krakowie
• Journal: Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Ekonomii i Informatyki w Krakowie
• Year: 2022
• Issue: 18
• Pages: 123-144

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Anna Stolińska

• Wyższa Szkoła Ekonomii i Informatyki w Krakowie

• https://orcid.org/000000030979011X

author

Mariusz Noga

• Wyższa Szkoła Ekonomii i Informatyki w Krakowie

reviewer

Tadeusz Grabiński

• Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Krakowie

reviewer

Anna Surowiec

• Akademia Górniczo -Hutnicza w Krakowie

reviewer

Witold Byrski

• Akademia Górniczo -Hutnicza w Krakowie

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