How did technology a student with brain paralysis help play her eyes?

Alexandra Kerlido sits on a wheelchair on the stage in Athens, and as soon as her eyes are moved on a computer screen in front of her, 21 -year -old student fills the atmosphere with charming fugitive music.

The student, who has a kind of cerebral palsy, is playing her from using her hands or speaking, through the (i-Harb) or "APP" program, which is digital software that is controlled by looking and allowing those who suffer from disabilities to play music, which you never imagined to becomePossible.

"I felt strange ... I never imagined such a matter," said Alexandra, using a computer talking, describing the I-Harb experience for the first time in her home in Lesbos with his designer.

Vamavakosis, a computer technology and musician, thought about designing this program when a music friend was in a motorcycle accident before a party he was supposed to play together.

"In the beginning, it was not clear whether he would be able to move his arms and hands and play music again ... it was a shock to me, and I realized that there was a need for such a technology," he said of his friend, who was playing with the Creette.

The technology of eye movement tracking is widely used in the field of electronic games, security and medicine, and it monitors eye movements to implement orders.The eye settles on each musical tone on the wheel drawn on the screen, and on average it can play three or four tones per second.This program can "play" on 25 musical instruments.

Vamavakosis teach the program in schools with special needs in Barcelona, where he studied, and says that more than two thousand people have downloaded the program.

Alexandra's parents said that tears dominated them when they heard their daughter playing the use of (i-Harb) for the first time.

As for Alexandra, she says that she does not imagine life without music, and says, "When I am sad or happy ... I occupy music."