HARDWARE MOUSE ALTERNATIVES

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EYE - MICE:

The Eyegaze Communication System, LC Technologies, Inc.
The Eyegaze System makes it possible for people with physical disabilities to operate a computer with their eyes. By looking at control keys displayed on a computer monitor, a person can synthesize speech, control his environment.
http://www.lctinc.com/doc/ecs.htm

EyeMouse from Adaptive Computer Systems
The EyeMouse from Adaptive Computer System allows users to 'type with their eyes'. The EyeMouse tracks pupil movements using a video-based tracking system and generates mouse signals to move the cursor on the computer monitor. Text can be entered using the EyeMouse with Visual Keyboard, and the Internet is accessible with Visual Surfboard.
http://www.adaptive-computer.com/eyemouse.html
Visual Keyboard:
http://www.adaptive-computer.com/vk.html
Visual Surfboard:
http://www.adaptive-computer.com/vs.html

Eye Access is an eye-movement controlled computer system. For some time the idea of precisely analysing the function of eye-movement with regard to using it to operate a wide variety of systems has been a source of interest for many researchers.
http://saem-ales.saem-ales.fr/EyeServer/

Vision Control Systems - eye tracking, holographic, optics, control, eye, retina, infra-red. Low cost point-of-observation computer control Vision Control Systems` technology instantaneously moves the cursor to the user`s precise point of observation, with immediate operational benefits. By integrating a miniature camera with holographic optics, VCS brings the benefits of low cost, lightweight eye-tracking to computer users. Applications for VCS technology span computer games, pilot training, advertising research and aids for disabled people.
http://www.visioncs.com/

QUAD - MICE:

JOUSE is a joystick-operated mouse that is controlled with your mouth.
http://dialup.oar.net/~Pprco/access/jouse.html

Quad - Joy Street Electric Manufacturing Company
http://www.excel.net/business/quadjoy~mouse.htm

ALTERNATIVE INPUT DEVICES:
PADS AND SWITCHS

Switching Devices - Mobility Impairments - List
http://www.wolfe.net/~dr_bill/modswich.html

Pads & Switchs Controls:
http://rcun01.polyu.edu.hk/product/comm.html

Alternative Input Devices
http://n1nlf-1.media.mit.edu/computing/input.html

Alternative Input Devices - List.
Alternative Keyboards: Comfort (by Health Care Keyboard) Kinesis (by Kinesis Corporation) Data Hand (by Data Hand Systems) Octima (by Ergoplic Keyboards, Israel) Floating Arms (by Workplace Designs) Starpoint 101 (by Jefferson Computer Products).
http://www.bilbo.com/altinput.html

Headpointers - Devices:
http://www.macroint.com/cgi-win/ableweb.exe?prc=gtp&q=sq&gc=299&

Optical Pointers - Devices:
http://www.macroint.com/cgi-win/ableweb.exe?prc=gtp&q=sq&gc=300&

Morse 2000 Code Input - Devices
Morse And Alternative Input Code Devices

ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROLS:

Home Automation Environmental Control
http://www.eskimo.com/~jlubin/disabled/cmpyinfo.htm#ecu

The Prentke Romich Company - Home Page
Augmentative Communication -
Computer Access - Environmental Controls
http://www.rehabdesigns.com/prentke.htm


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