The original French title refers to a diving suit, one of those heavy metal-glass ones as a metaphor to the locked-in-body syndrome.
I can’t imagine the patience required on both sides of the transcription process. In 1995, it would be very much possible to write a computer program that uses reflection of the eye on the IR port to at least partially automate it. Or maybe attach EEG to the patient to perhaps allow for more output.
My uncle made one in 1985 that did blinks for clicks and looking direction for joystick control.
Very cool! The thesis does not seem to mention blinks but they seem pretty trivial as opposed to eye position. This solution is all in hardware, mine would be all software assuming the eye and eyelid have sufficiently different IR reflectivity for a normal infraport to detect. Of course, there are many other options to implement this such as a microcontroller, some kind of character display and a teletype for non-volatile storage. Or nothing but a Morse code logger but that’s a little too dehumanizing.
Sucks worse all that work and he dies two days after publication.
God damn…meanwhile I can’t even commit to watching a tv show if it’s more than a few seasons long.
you probably could do it if you couldn’t turn your head, move your body or use the remote
