How to detect a user's eye blinks with Google Glass builtin-sensors?

Question

I want to use Google Glass to detect users eye blink rate, is that is possible using the built in sensors? How can I start with this?

Answer 1

Not really, you can detect "winks" which requires user setup for what a "wink" is though, but there's no direct access to the IR sensor for detecting blinks (without "rooting")

Answer 2

Actually you can, you could use the glass libraries like:

import com.google.android.glass.eye.EyeGesture;
import com.google.android.glass.eye.EyeGestureManager;
import com.google.android.glass.eye.EyeGestureManager.Listener;

Here is an example project: https://github.com/thorikawa/EyeGestureLib