Writing by eyelid movement
NZPA-AFP Sapporo A Japanese woman, aged 55, totally paralysed since she contracted a rare muscular disease eight years ago, has completed a 280-page book by winking for more than two years. . Hana Yamabata has been unable to talk or move her limbs, but wrote the book by using a “wink communicator," an eyeopening machine designed by Akihisa Matsumoto, a doctor at Sapporo Minami Hospital. t Dr Matsumoto explained that a cursor moves across syllabary Japanese characters lined up on a visual display screen. Miss Yamabata simply winked when the cursor reached a character she wished to use in her book. An infra-red ray then bounced off her eyelid activating a personal computer hooked to a word processor, the doctor added. It took her more than two years to complete the book entitled “I Want to Talk. I Want to Walk.” Nurses then wrote up her work using Chinese characters.
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Press, 10 January 1987, Page 10
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