With the objective of reducing the digital gap and encouraging integration, the free software has helped people with motor disabilities to control the mouse and keyboard of any computer.
HeadMouse makes it possible to control the mouse cursor with facial expressions and head movements via a webcam while the VirtualKeyboard provides a virtual keyboard that allows texts to be written on any device – mouse, joystick or touchpad – that can control a cursor on a screen.
The solutions, created by the Indra Faculty-Adecco Foundation at the University of Lleida Department for Research into Accessible Technologies, has reached 400,000 downloads across 95 different countries.
Brazil, Mexico, Argentina and Spain have seen the most downloads of the solutions. HeadMouse and VirtualKeyboard have also reached Chile, Colombia, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, Finland, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Russia, India, China, Korea, Thailand, Japan, the Philippines, New Zealand, Morocco, South Africa and Kenya, among others.
