Methods and systems are provided for controlling an electronic device. The method includes acquiring, by a processor of the electronic device, a facial image. The facial image includes a face of a user having one or more eyes. The processor detects a center position of the eye and a pupil position corresponding to a center of a pupil of the eye, determines an eye gaze position based on the center position and the pupil position, analyzes the eye gaze position in consecutively captured facial images, and performs a function associated with a touch event at the eye gaze position in response to determining that the gaze position corresponds to a location of the touch event in the consecutively captured facial images.