“Eyelid motion provides us with meaningful information about the health status of a patient,” explains student Hanuka. “It can indicate, for example, neurological diseases such as Parkinson’s disease and autoimmune diseases such as Graves’ disease... We developed a device that can be installed on standard refraction glasses used in eye tests.”
Both hardware and software
systems are installed on these glasses to detect the wearer’s eyelid
movements, and interpret them according to the magnetic field generated
by two tiny magnets fitted on the upper eyelids. The EMM project is
conducted at the High Speed Digital Systems Laboratory (HS-DSL) located
in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering; the software (Eyelidpro) was
developed by two electrical engineering students. Today, as part of her doctorate
with Prof. Schachter, she is developing tiny optical radiation devices
for cancer therapy. “Existing devices operate on energy from big and
expensive accelerators, and this radiation also damages healthy tissue.
Our vision is to develop a compact accelerator that would be relatively
inexpensive and which could be employed also in small clinics, with a
capacity for direct targeted radiation to the tumor site.”