Our rehab clinic is exploring purchasing an eye gaze system.  We have several vendors demonstrating product.  However, you may have experienced that vendors are reluctant to leave a system for staff to try out independently.  As a training institution we have several students who would be able to test out a system to give us good data to make comparisons. Have any of you been successful with having an eye gaze system left for you try and evaluate independently? When one system was borrowed from an AT lending library a few months back, staff had trouble with calibration of the system.

I know we would be very grateful if clinicians on the list would provide us with any performance data that has been collected to compare eye gaze technologies, especially selection rates and under what conditions these rates were achieved.  Also, what are the other criteria you're using to evaluate and compare eye gaze control interfaces as well as personal observations on performance and user-satisfaction.

Thanks for any input that may help our clinic in making the most informed choice.

Great news about the ALS funding!!!

Katya

Katya Hill, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
Associate Professor
Communication Science and Disorders
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University of Pittsburgh
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