Authors:
Pedro Dias
1
;
Ana Ferreira
2
;
3
;
Ricardo Vigário
1
;
2
;
Cláudia Quaresma
1
;
2
and
Carla Quintão
1
;
2
Affiliations:
1
Departamento de Física, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
;
2
LIBPhys - UNL, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
;
3
Departamento de Saúde, Escola Superior de Saúde, Instituto Politécnico de Beja, 7800-111 Beja, Portugal
Keyword(s):
Rehabilitation, Visuomotor Skills, Eye Tracker.
Abstract:
Visual impairments affect the life of millions of people. Some of these impairments can be corrected or
diminished. Visual stimulation is one way of visual rehabilitation, that has produced better results when used
in the early years of life. As there is nothing standardized in this field, a platform named RehabVisual was
developed (Machado et al., 2018; Santos, 2018). This platform has the objective of creating an individual
visuomotor rehabilitation for children under two years old, that were born prematurely. In order to reach a
therapists' need, a video analysis tool was developed. This tool should be capable of following the motion
of the patients' eyes, with the purpose of facilitating and making the analysis of their reactions to the stimuli
more objective. The solution developed on this paper consists on the creation of an eye tracker system, that
does not need to be pre-calibrated and is low-cost. The eye tracker was tested in healthy individuals and the
results sho
w that is very effective in detecting horizontal eye variations.
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