FAT & OpenFrameworks & Graffiti Resarch Lab: EyeWriter, Biofeedback-driven Environment and Tool 2008

It is a low-cost eye-tracking apparatus & custom software that allows graffiti writers and artists with paralysis resulting from Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to draw using only their eyes.The EyeWriter project is an ongoing collaborative research effort to empower people who are suffering from ALS with creative technologies.

Members of Free Art and Technology (FAT), OpenFrameworks, the Graffiti Research Lab, and The Ebeling Group communities have teamed-up with a legendary LA graffiti writer, publisher and activist, named Tony Quan, aka TEMPTONE. Tony was diagnosed with ALS in 2003, a disease which has left him almost completely physically paralyzed except for his eyes. This international team is working together to create a low-cost, open source eye-tracking system that will allow ALS patients to draw using just their eyes. The long-term goal is to create a professional/social network of software developers, hardware hackers, urban projection artists and ALS patients from around the world who are using local materials and open source research to creatively connect and make eye art.

Credits
The core development teams consists of members of Free Art and Technology (FAT), OpenFrameworks and the Graffiti Resarch Lab: Tony Quan, Evan Roth, Chris Sugrue, Zach Lieberman,Theo Watson and James Powderly.
With founding support from The Ebeling Group and the Not Impossible Foundation, and addition support from Parsons Communication Design & Technology.

More info: http://www.eyewriter.org/

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• art
• technology
• eye
• tracking
• FutureEverything

[ensakamoto]

hey guys, love this project beyond reason... just a quick question non-related though: anybody can tell me the soundtrack behind the video?

[porofix]

@DNightingale1 That "Some kind of recut version" is the original version from " Nosaj Thing - Aquarium"

[miguelvmonroy]

i wana now how its the song !! i love this song.

:D

[trebolab]

I wish i could know how to use openframeworks :(

[yukinokuroshu]

@DNightingale1 Thanks!! ^^

[DNightingale1]

@yukinokuroshu Some kind of recut version of "Kid Cudi - Man on the moon"

[JeremyPfeiffer]

Wow man great story!

[jaminunit]

And Bill Gates Said there was no future in open scource! what a fool! This is so fricken fantastic!

[TheShadowHackers]

Its Nice To Know That We Can Still Do What We Love When Where Like That......Props

[diehard430]

mad respecct