Darmouth College Researchers Create "EyePhone"

The EyePhone is a hands-free interfacing system that uses eye movements and actions, such as winking, to control applications and functions.

EyePhone tracks the user's eye movement across the phone's display using the camera mounted on the front of the phone. Machine-learning algorithms track the eye and infer its position on the mobile phone display as a user views a particular application. It detects eye blinks, which emulate mouse clicks.

On a prototype using a Nokia 810, the phone can track the position of the eye and map this position to a function that is activated by a wink.