Hand-free control is increasingly becoming an important aspect of the design of the devices as well as the approach to user interfaces. As a global leader in technological innovation, Google is once again pushing the boundaries of how this can be implemented. At its developer keynote, the company announced that one of its operating systems will now have a new feature: a system of control that will allow users complete access to their device without even the need to touch the screen. Instead, it will rely on the latest developments in facial tracking combined with Google AI to detect faces and eye movements. It will then make decisions accordingly.
At the heart of this empowering release is Project Gameface, a mobile portion of Google’s desktop innovation. Combining Android accessibility services with a robust database of facial expressions from MediaPipe’s Face Landmarks Detection API, Project Gameface provides an innovative user experience that is highly customisable, intuitive, and accessible. This innovation isn’t merely about operating through a screen; it’s about dismantling barriers and creating a more equal digital world.
While their investment gets extra points for social responsibility, that aside, Google have thrown themselves into the game with an exploratory partnership with Incluzza (an international solutions group focused on accessibility) to test the Gameface tech in contexts outside of gaming – for use in working and social environments. ‘The device’s camera tracks facial expressions and head movements and instantly translates them into natural control options that are personal to you,’ Google explained. ‘Developers and users can customise the experiences with facial expressions, gesture sizes, cursor speed and more.
An early example of gameface was conceived with Lance Carr, a viral video game streamer who happens to be a quadriplegic. Its in-house design was Wayne Chung, head of project management. ‘What we’ve been doing is making things simpler, more affordable as well,’ he said during Project Jam, miming an expansive gesture. ‘So for instance imagination space, which allows you to change the commission rate of a card. Let’s say some people have less dexterity than others. For some people this game face, these movements may be big, and for other people it may be smaller.’
By open-sourcing more of its code for Project Gameface — details of which Google outlined in a blogpost earlier this month — the company could greatly encourage independent developers to invent more Android applications for the blind and visually-impaired. That will increase the percentage of people who could benefit from these kinds of advances.
Meanwhile, Google has recently announced new AI features for its TalkBack screen reader technology (part of Project Gameface), with the aim of providing users who are blind or low-vision with more detailed descriptions and context around unannotated pictures on the web, a substantial milestone in providing accessibility to websites. Google is, in this way, holding itself to higher standards of accessibility, and giving AI the benefit of the doubt in ensuring people are able to access all aspects of the internet.
So, Google’s recent ambitions into accessibility and AI are consistent with its overarching vision of constant creation, making technology serve a wider purpose by accommodating the needs of users in a way that is not limited by human ableness.
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And the latest from Google, a hands-free version of navigation called Project Gameface, represents the power of technology to open the world to a wider range of abilities and capabilities. The next generation of smart features brought to us through AI and facial tracking promise us an ever more sensory and accessible experience of the digital world. With accessible technology navigating a bigger share of our lives, platforms like Gizmogo gearing up for Google’s next round of device lifecycles, the tech accessibility industry is set to take off like never before.
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