{"id":3103,"date":"2012-01-04T18:19:54","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T18:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3103"},"modified":"2012-01-04T18:19:54","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T18:19:54","slug":"eye_contact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3103","title":{"rendered":"Eye Contact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While my parents were in town, my dad generously offered to buy me an iPad. I politely declined, telling him I didn&#8217;t see the point in owning an iPad if I couldn&#8217;t use it myself. But if <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/future_tense\/2011\/12\/29\/eyeball_movement_based_navigation_shifting_from_helping_the_disabled_to_mainstream_use_videos_.html\">this eye-tracking software<\/a> for smartphones and tablets becomes a reality, I may have to reconsider his offer. The video demonstration for the software looks promising, but promotional videos always present their products in the best light. Eye-tracking systems already are <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/6B9D2F61-C8FE-41F8-BA10-4F2DFB85355D.html\">in use by people with disabilities<\/a>, but they&#8217;re limited to desktop computers. <\/p>\n<p>Like I keep saying, I&#8217;d love to be untethered from my circa-1990 assistive technology. I&#8217;m just waiting for the right product to appear. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While my parents were in town, my dad generously offered to buy me an iPad. I politely declined, telling him I didn&#8217;t see the point in owning an iPad if I couldn&#8217;t use it myself. But if this eye-tracking software for smartphones and tablets becomes a reality, I may have to reconsider his offer. The <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3103' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-O3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}