Research Description

Electrooculargraphy and Improved Disability Assistance

My project calls for detecting and recording eye movements accurately in a cost-effective and less invasive manner.

It will be implemented with an open source EEG developed by a now-defunct open source community of engineers named openEEG that aimed to develop both hardware and software for a cost-efficient EEG for hobbyists worldwide. I have updated the design to include USB for computer communication and active electrodes for more accurate readings.

Immediate real-world applications include aiding the disabled to use computers and the Internet, which is becoming increasingly integrated in today's world. Helping people who ordinarily would have difficulty using the internet is the original scope of the research eye movements could replace mouse and keyboard usage. Another real-world application is a small-scale, cost-efficient sleep study machine that would relate eye movements to sleep cycles and disorders. This would offer a simple, cheap alternative to otherwise expensive and uncomfortable traditional sleep studies.