Resources and Links:

• ETRA
• ETRA on ACM portal

  Text Books:

• Eye Tracking Methodology
• Neurology of Eye Movements

    Reading Remediation

    The Computer Science Department and the Physiology Department at the George Washington University participated in a multidisciplinary Research and Development task to Design and Test an Eye-Gazed based Reading Remediation System for Dyslexic patients and  people injured with neurological trauma such as head injury.

    The Project was sponsored by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA/JPL) and the primary paper was published in ACM UIST2000.

    The Final Project Report was written on April 2003 by Professor John Sibert, Professor Robert Lavine and Ali Ahmadi.

    The Primary Hypothesis was:

    "The unobtrusive assistance rendered by the Eye-Gazed auditory prompting system is an effective remediation for Dyslexia and Alexia."

    A dyslexic patient reads a text on the computer screen and the eye tracking system monitors the readers gaze point. If the reader cannot read a word, the system will highlight and pronounce the difficult word.

    This is the proposal presentation for this project made by Ali Ahmadi based on the Scientific Method.