“Nice to meet you all,” wrote Hyung-Jin Shin, using only his eyes.

From his adjustable bed, Shin made the words appear on the computer screen using Eyecan+, an eye-tracking device developed by Samsung Electronics.

“I’m happy that eye mouse is developed in Korea,” he continued. “The eye mouse is not just an IT product, but limbs for the disabled. Hope this kind of research will continue.”

Shin, a graduate student in computer science at the Yonsei University in Seoul, has worked with Samsung on developing the Eyecan user experience. He was born with quadriplegia, or paralyzed limbs.

Samsung designed the Eyecan+ to help paralyzed people like Shin interact with computers, using eye movements and blinking to perform common operations such as typing, copying and pasting, clicking, scrolling, or zooming in and out.

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