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The use of eye tracking systems enables people with motor disabilities to interact with computers and thus with their environment. Combined with an optical see-through head-mounted display (OST-HMD) it allows the interaction with virtual objects which are attached to real objects respectively actions which can be performed in the SmartHome environment. This means a user can trigger actions of real SmartHome actuators by gazing on the virtual objects in the OST-HMD. In this paper we propose a mobile system which is a combination of a low cost commercial eye tracker and a commercial OST-HMD. The system is intended for a SmartHome application. For this purpose we proof our concept by controlling a LED strip light using gaze-based augmented reality controls. We show a calibration procedure of the OST-HMD and evaluate the influence of the OST-HMD to the accuracy of the eye tracking.
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This work is supported by the German Ministery of Education and Research under grant 16SV7181.
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Cottin, T., Nordheimer, E., Wagner, A., Badreddin, E. (2017). Gaze-Based Human-SmartHome-Interaction by Augmented Reality Controls. In: Rodić, A., Borangiu, T. (eds) Advances in Robot Design and Intelligent Control. RAAD 2016. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 540. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49058-8_41
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