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Hi everyone! Does anyone have trouble accessing the internet because the "working offline" keeps checking itself. I go into file uncheck it, try to acccess the internet and fail again. When I go back into file the crazy thing has gotten checked again! HELP! I am about ready to pick my Tobii up and throw it......oh wait, I have no use of my arms!!! :) Thanks in advance for any assistance you can send my way!

Lovisa, one of our Swedish MyTobii P10 user is having a "blast" on New Years Eve, firing rockets with her eyes. They made a wireless connection to a firing ramp outside. She selects which rocket to fire, and then, almost by magic, the rocket is fired from the ramp. Awesome!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzmdj4qIeM4

We are proud to announce that we have just released Tobii SymbolMate version 1.0.

It is an application for creating paper based page sets. It is a very easy to use application and one of the great features is that it comes with approximately 15,000 SymbolStix symbols.

You also have the opportunity to subscribe to News-2-You's updated symbols directly from within the application.

Another great feature is the ease of which you can add your own folders of symbols and images - making personal page sets is quite easy.

This and a lot more is available in our brand new application. If you download the 30-day trial, create a summer themed page set that you send to us you have the chance of becoming one of the lucky 25 winners of a full, unlocked version.

You can download your own trial version here.

Is the systems menu popping up all the time?

This is how to change that:

Go into Advanced Settings/System. The first item allows you to completely disable the System Menu so it cannot be accessed by looking down. The System Menu can now only be accessed with the touchscreen. An alternative is to increase the dwell time required to bring up the System menu. Set this to a time above 1 second and the menu should not pop up unless you want it to.

Hi guys,

The tip this week is about having an external keyboard attached to your MyTobii and running the MyTobii application.

Did you know that by pressing the "home" key on the keyboard the "track status window" will pop up. Press again to make it go away.

Pressing the "pause" key on a keyboard will pause the eyetracking. Pressing it again will enable the eyetracking again.

See you next week.

Regards

Patrik Lindholm/Tobii Tech support

We just released MyTobii 2.4.5. This release is mainly a bug fix release, but it also contains a new language, Turkish. Any user that experiences problems with the MyTobii e-mail client or with the feedback dot should upgrade to this version.

You will find the new downloadable version, a document describing all the changes and an installation instruction on www.tobii.com

The guys and girls at Viking R&D have made a photo symbol library that is available as a free download for all VS Communicator 4 customers.

The symbols sets, that are not part of the standard VS Communicator 4 installation, are translated into Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, German and Dutch. All symbol languages reside in the same installation file.

To download the symbol set go to http://www.viking-software.com/products/04/updates.php (The Communicator Photos link is a the bottom of the page).

As for now there are 280 picture in the library. Please provide us with any suggestions, thoughts, etc. Your feedback will impact whether we move further with this project.

Have you ever been in VS Communicator 4 and accidentally dwelled on a button that opened up a screen that is not eye controlled?  I know it happens.  For example, you are on the Complete Email page set and you accidentally dwell too long on the Configure button.  The Email settings screen appears and you cannot get out of it through eye tracking.  Well, that is not necessarily true.  Exit out of VS Communicator and follow these steps.  *Warning:  You will need someone who can access the touchscreen in order to complete these directions:

1. Get to the Basic Settings screen in MyTobii.

2. Choose Advanced Settings. This is the screen that is not eye controlled.

3. Click on the plus sign next to Applications

4. Click on the plus sign next to Partner

5. Click on VS Communicator 4 (or 3 if that is what you are using).

6.  Choose Use mouse control.

7. Choose Save and Close

8. Choose Back

9. Go back into VS Communicator.

Now you have mouse control in VS Communicator, so if a non-eye tracking window comes up, you can close it with the mouse arrow.

This month’s tip is mainly for professionals.

Sometimes it could be better to use an image instead of the normal calibration point. For example when working with very young children or infants. It could be hard to get them looking at the calibration point because it just isn’t interesting enough. Instead you can use something more personal or more fun. Why not a photo of mom? Or maybe a fun-looking bus?

To use an image instead of the normal calibration point you will have to bring up the Basic Settings dialog and then go to Advanced Settings. Then choose Calibration in the settings list. I.e: Basic Settings -> Advanced Settings -> Calibration

At the upper-right corner you can see choices for Stimulus type. Choose Image. After that you change the image by going to Primary calibration stimulus (see the screenshot to see the different areas, they are marked in red).

MyTobii comes with several fun and nice looking images, but you can use any image files that you have.

Remember however that you should preferably choose images that draws the users attention to the center of the image. That will give you the best calibration results.

You can also use video files to calibrate, and there are several more helpful calibration options that you can play around with. Just try it out and for more help look in your MyTobii manual.

Pioneered by the University of East London’s SMARTlab team, MyTobii is being used in a world premiere of a live, eye-controlled music and dance session.

Using specially created software, Katie Gilligan and James Brosnan will be using their eyes to play music from the MyTobii screen – with live musicians as a part of the band. Due to be performed at The Science Gallery in Dublin in early April, this show is sure to be inspirational.

Led by a team of scholars, engineers, artists and medical experts, SMARTlab is an environment where new technology tools are used to improve the quality of independent life and creative expression of people with disabilities.

So how do they do it?
Using buttons that have been pre-programmed with different sounds, James and Katie simply look at each button when they want a particular sound. Brand new music has been written for the performance, with and for the artists.