EOG Based Eye Blink Detection using VB GUI for Eye Writing Applications

Abstract

Usage of bio-signals from Electro-Oculo-Gram (EOG) in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) systems is one of the burgeoning study areas as of now. In order to provide support for physically challenged persons (or keypad Contactless HCI) in operating basic computer functions without making any physical touch with the computer keypad or mouse, we propose a framework utilization concept that changes movement of cursor on the computer screen using virtual keypad based on Visual Basic Graphical User Interface (VB GUI) with the eye movement detection through webcam of the system for different computer functions. In this work, VB GUI platform is used for a web browsing application and corresponding platform operation steps have been included. With the VB GUI, the basic cursor movements in the directions of left, right, up, and down to access the web links on the web page which is treated as eye writing in the concept of human computer interaction. Similarly, we can access different computer Apps such as MS-Doc, XL sheets, Audio and video files etc. Further, this paper focus is on prototype development of different home automation system applications.