I know you are looking to me: Enabling eye-gaze communication between small children and parents with visual impairments

Eye-gaze interaction is a relevant mean of communication from the early infancy. The bonding between infants and their care-takers is Strengthened through eye contact. Parents with visual impairments are excluded of this type of interaction with their children. Thus, nowadays computer vision technologies allow to track eye-gaze with different purposes, even users with visual impairments are enable to recognize faces. This work starts from the following research question: Can current available eye tracking solutions aid parents with visual impairments to have eye-gaze interaction with their young infants children?