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Tobii is a Swedish company founded in 2001. We are the global leader in eye tracking. Our vision is to create a world where all technology works in harmony with natural human behavior. Tobii operates through three business units: Tobii Dynavox, Tobii Pro and Tobii Tech. Tobii is headquartered in Sweden and is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm (TOBII). 1 USB2 requirements: USB 2.0 BC1.2 provides Tobii IS4 with sufficient power and signal bandwidth. 2 Trackbox describes the space in front of the eye tracker where the user must have at least one eye to get gaze data. The eye tracker is at a 20° angle looking upward from below the screen.

Tobii (formerly known as Tobii Technology AB) is a Swedish high-technology company that develops and sells products for eye control and eye tracking.

History[edit]

John Elvesjo, Mårten Skogö and Henrik Eskilsson founded the company in 2001. All three founders play an active role in the company: Henrik Eskilsson is the CEO, John Elvesjö is vice president and CTO, and Mårten Skogö is Chief Science Officer. The Tobii Group consists of three business units: Tobii Dynavox from an acquisition of US based DynaVox,^[2] Tobii Pro, and Tobii Tech. Tobii is based in Stockholm, Sweden, with offices in the US, Japan, China, Germany, Norway and Ukraine. Tobii became publicly traded on April 22, 2015,^[3] trading on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.

In 2007, the company got $14 million in venture capital from Investor Growth Capital.^[4] In May 2009, Investor, Amadeus Capital Partners and Northzone Ventures invested an additional $16 million,^[5] and at the start of 2012, Intel Capital invested $21 million.^[6]

In 2008, Tobii won the Swedish Grand Award of Design together with the design company Myra Industriell Design, for the technology and design in their eye controlled screens.^[7] In 2010, Tobii won the SIME Grand Prize for having the most innovative technology concept. In 2011, Tobii Glasses won the red dot design award, an international product design competition and later the same year, Tobii won the Bully Award. In 2012, Tobii took home the award for best prototype at the consumer technology tradeshow 2012 CES and Laptop Magazine named Tobii the winner in its best new technology category.

Products[edit]

Tobii's products are sold directly and through resellers and partners worldwide. People with communication disabilities use Tobii Dynavox's technical devices and language tools (AAC devices) to communicate. Due to their high cost, they are often the goal of charity drives.^{[8][9][10][11]}

Tobii Pro has products that are widely used for research in the academic community, and to conduct usability studies and market surveys of commercial products. Tobii Tech is the business unit that partners with others to integrate eye tracking and eye control in different industry applications and fields such as advanced driver assistance,^[12] consumer computing^[13][14] and gaming.

At the Consumer Electronics Show 2012, they demonstrated the Tobii Gaze, an infrared light based eye tracking device that makes it possible for users to use their eyes to point and interact with a standard computer.^[15]

In 2014, Tobii partnered with Danish SteelSeries and launched their first eye tracking system for consumers: the Tobii EyeX and the SteelSeries Sentry Eye Tracker.^[16] Several video games from major publishers were released in 2015-16 with support for Tobii's consumer devices, with varying levels of success.^[17][18][19]

• Ulrich and his Tobii communication device

• Tobii's eye controlled arcade game; EyeAsteroids

• Snap-on Tobii X1 Light Eye Tracker from 2012 for portable labs

References[edit]

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2. ^'Tobii Acquires AAC leader DynaVox Systems LLC' (Press release). 22 May 2014. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
3. ^'Sweden's Tobii sets IPO price range at 22-25 SEK/share'. Reuters. 13 April 2015. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
4. ^'Tobii Technology Raises $14M in Funding From Investor Growth Capital' (Press release). Businesswire. 26 March 2007. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
5. ^'Tobii Technology raises $16M funding' (Press release). MrWeb. 15 May 2009. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
6. ^Grundberg, Sven (16 March 2012). 'Intel invests in Tobii eye tracker'. The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
7. ^Bergsell, Thomas (6 May 2008). 'Ögonstyrda bildskärmar tilldelas Stora designpriset' [Grand Award of Design awarded for eye tracking screens] (in Swedish). Retrieved 17 March 2016.
8. ^Rose, Beth (17 March 2016). 'Breaking the silence at 16 years old with the words 'Hello Mum''. BBC News. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
9. ^Weaver, Stephanie (2 March 2016). 'Appeal to raise £20,000 for 'must-have' equipment for intensive care patients at hospital in Northamptonshire'. Northampton Chronicle & Echo. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
10. ^Roberts, Emily (13 July 2013). 'Winklebury mum Esther Camp will shave off her bright pink hair'. Basingstoke Gazette. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
11. ^'Anonymous cash donation helps disabled three-year-old's dreams of communicating come true'. Express & Star. 7 January 2015. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
12. ^Byrne, Ciara (30 November 2011). 'Tobii keeps an eye on distracted drivers'. VentureBeat. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
13. ^Levine, Barry (6 March 2012). 'Here Comes the Next Generation of Eye-Tracking'. Top Tech News. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
14. ^Van Camp, Jeffrey (15 March 2011). 'Death of the mouse: How eye-tracking technology could save the PC'. Digital Trends. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
15. ^Chan, Casey (8 January 2012). 'I just controlled Windows 8 with my eyes and it made me believe in technology again'. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
16. ^Nayan, Kamal (5 January 2014). 'EyeX Controller: SteelSeries and Tobii Technology team up to take on Kinect with eye-tracking controller'. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
17. ^Kamen, Matt (10 July 2015). 'Is the gaming eye tracker worth keeping an eye on?'. The Guardian. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
18. ^Hachman, Mark (17 Feb 2016). 'Tobii eyeX review: The 'eye mouse' is magical, but just not for everyone'. PC World. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
19. ^Gent, Edd (14 September 2015). 'Eye-tracking tech: Countdown to lift-off?'. Engineering & Technology. Archived from the original on 25 March 2016. Retrieved 17 March 2016.

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By Brian T. Horowitz, Editor and Contributing Writer

When a former world champion of pro-BMX biking, Stephan Murray, was paralyzed in a tragic fall in June 2007, he didn’t give up on life or even computing.

With eye-tracking software, he can still enter data on a PC on his own.

“I can do all my emails, I can write, I can talk,” Murray said in a Tobii video. “My communication just opened up.”

A loss of motor skills won’t prevent a user from controlling a PC anymore, as people with paralysis or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) are using eye-tracking technology to operate PCs.

Companies that have developed these technologies include Samsung Electronics and Tobii Technology.

“It’s about changing lives and enabling people who would have been locked into their own bodies and couldn’t have the most basic communication to live a much more functional life,” according to Fredrik Ruben, president of Tobii Dynavox, the assistive technology division of Tobii.

Eyecan+ eye tracking ditches the glasses

Eyecan+ is the second version of an eye mouse that lets people compose and edit documents as well as browse the Web using eye movement. The product consists of a box that rests below the monitor and allows users to calibrate with a user’s eye.

“Eyecan+ is the result of a voluntary project initiated by our engineers and reflects their passion and commitment to engage more people in our community,” SiJeong Cho, vice president of community relations at Samsung Electronics, said in a statement.

Samsung will not commercialize Eyecan+, but the company will manufacture a quantity to donate to charity organizations to improve the lives of people with diseases such as Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS) and locked-in syndrome (LIS).

“Both the technology and design of Eyecan+ will soon be made open source, and made accessible to companies and organizations that wish to commercialize the eye mouse,” Cho said.

An Eyecan user must be 60 centimeters to 70 centimeters away from a monitor to operate it. Users look at an item on the screen and can select it with a blink.

The application uses 18 commands that rely on eye movement and blinking to control a PC. Users select the command by looking at an icon and blinking one time. Eyecan software can be customized to include keystrokes such as “close program” and “print.”

Hyung-Jin Shin, a graduate student in computer science at Yonsei University in Seoul, is a quadriplegic who worked with Samsung on the second generation of Eyecan to make it easier to use. A previous version required glasses, but now the unit rests under a computer’s monitor.

Although it took Shin 20 minutes to write an email, he was still able to express his thoughts on the technology’s benefits.

“The eye mouse isn’t just an IT device, but arms and legs for a patient with advanced disease,” Shin wrote using Eyecan, according to The Verge. “I hope that this kind of research will be continued.”

For people with ALS, the eyes are the last body part to be affected due to the progressive nature of the debilitating illness, Ruben said.

Some assistive systems that use head movement, tongue, or a finger to control computers may provide more robust control, but the eye is the organ patients can still control when they have conditions such as ALS, according to Sang-won Leigh, a software developer for Eyecan+.

“I personally believe eye tracking is the most viable solution for people with a motor disability to use a computer,” Leigh wrote in an email.

Tobii delivers independent computing to paralyzed users

Tobii Technology — which in May purchased DynaVox, an augmentative and alternative communication company — offers eye-tracking technology that aids people with Parkinson’s, ALS or other conditions that result in paralysis due to a spinal cord or neck injury.

Tobii EyeMobile consists of a USB PCEye Go tracker that connects to a Windows 8 tablet, which can be placed on a wheelchair. Users can input text on a screen by staring at a letter for two seconds. To drag and drop an item on the desktop, users “gaze” at the drag-and-drop icon on the right taskbar, look at the item they want to move, then look at the spot where it should go.

The system also uses word prediction to help paralyzed users type. To scroll up or down on the page, users look at the middle of their screen and then move their eyes in the direction they want the page to go.

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Eye-tracking technology allows paralyzed users autonomy while working on a tablet or PC, preventing them from having to rely solely on a family member or friend to type, according to Fredrik Ruben, president of Tobii Dynavox, the assistive technology division of Tobii.

“For our users, it means so much more than being able to read and write,” Ruben said. “It’s about independence.”

Before eye tracking, paralyzed users would need to have a stick glued to their forehead to try to type on a computer. The “leap” into eye tracking doesn’t require users to feel hampered by an apparatus attached to their head, Ruben noted.

Eye-tracking “provides you with a lot of normalcy, and it’s much faster,” Ruben said.

Although eye tracking has made great strides, there are still challenges to overcome, according to Leigh.

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“The difficulty that eye tracker users might encounter is the switch from ‘using eye for information retrieval’ to ‘using eye for control,’” Leigh said. “This, I think, is the main hurdle, but, advances in software are lowering the hurdle.”