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id: winklick
type: project
title: Winklick
url: https://auejin.com/en/projects/winklick/
lang: en
alternate:
  ko: https://auejin.com/ko/projects/winklick/
updated: '2026-08-11'
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# Winklick

Dec 2016

award: [International Science and Engineering Fair Finalist](https://auejin.com/en/awards/isef-finalist-2016/) · [Korea Olympiad in Informatics (Creation Division) — Silver](https://auejin.com/en/awards/koi-silver-2015/) · [Seoul Student Science Research Competition — Special Prize (Grade 1)](https://auejin.com/en/awards/seoul-student-research-2015/) · [Korea Youth Science Creativity Contest (ISEF-K) — Special Award](https://auejin.com/en/awards/isef-k-special-2014/)

- **What** — An interface that operates an Android phone with the eyes alone.
- **Why** — Someone with quadriplegia cannot touch the screen, and gaze by itself settles where to look but not when to press.
- **How** — It follows the gaze trajectory through a webcam to place the point, takes a wink as the press signal, and injects the touch event over ADB.
- **New** — Together they cover the whole design space of single-point touch — tap, long press, drag — using eyes and eyelids only.

## Abstract

Winklick is a new interaction design for smartphones and wearables that can generate single-point touch events with eye movements and blinks. Winklick enables people with paralyzed limbs to fully control smartphones with a front-faced camera.