Sight Sign

A project by Team Gleason, MSEnable, and Washington State University.

Sight Sign is a Windows 10 application that utilizes a Tobii 4C eye tracker, and UArm Swift Pro robotic arm to translate an digital signature into a physical signature. In other words, it will bring what’s on the screen to life! The Sight Sign application was an initiative from Team Sight Sign at Microsoft, and Team Gleason to provide individuals with ALS and other motor neuron diseases with the ability to sign any physical material. The project was then handed to a team of 4 software engineering students attending Washington State University who were responsible for making the application more user-friendly, and ready for the world.

The Sight Sign application enables users to create their own signatures on the ink canvas, and when hooked up to a robot via USB, it can instruct the robot to reproduce the signature writing in a variety of different sizes. In addition the entire application is “eye gaze” friendly, which means users can control the robot with their eyes (or mouse). The application also provides users with the ability to adjust the size of the signature produced by the robot, as well as save and load ink signatures with their eyes.