Eye Contact as a New Modality for Man-machine Interface

In daily life, people use many appliances, where different machines and tools should be operated with their specialized interfaces. These interfaces are often not intuitive thus require considerable time effort to master. On the other hand, human communications rich in modalities mostly intuitive. One of them is eye contact. This study proposes contact for enriching human-machine interface. The proposed interface modality, based on a neural network object detection, allows humans initiate machine operations by looking at them. this paper, hardware framework building elaborated results usability assessment through users’ experiments reported.