Eye-tracking en masse: Group user studies, lab infrastructure, and practices

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.16910/jemr.11.3.6

Keywords:

Group eye-tracking, eye tracking, gaze, infrastructure, group user study, user experience, usability, reading, interaction

Abstract

The costs of eye-tracking technologies steadily decrease. This allows research institutions to obtain multiple eye-tracking devices. Already, several multiple eye-tracker laboratories have been established. Researchers begin to recognize the subfield of group eye-tracking. In comparison to the single-participant eye-tracking, group eye-tracking brings new technical and methodological challenges. Solutions to these challenges are far from being established within the research community. In this paper, we present the Group Studies system, which manages the infrastructure of the group eye-tracking laboratory at the User Experience and Interaction Research Center (UXI) at the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava. We discuss the functional and architectural characteristics of the system. Furthermore, we illustrate our infrastructure with one of our past studies. With this paper, we also publish the source code and the documentation of our system to be re-used.

Author Biographies

  • Maria Bielikova, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava

    Full professor

    Institute of Informatics, Information Systems and Software Engineering

    of the

    Faculty of Informatics and Information Technologies

  • Martin Konopka, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava

    Doctoral student

    Institute of Informatics, Information Systems and Software Engineering

    of the

    Faculty of Informatics and Information Technologies

  • Jakub Simko, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava

    Assistant professor

    Institute of Informatics, Information Systems and Software Engineering

    of the

    Faculty of Informatics and Information Technologies

  • Robert Moro, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava

    Assistant professor

    Institute of Informatics, Information Systems and Software Engineering

    of the

    Faculty of Informatics and Information Technologies

  • Jozef Tvarozek, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava

    Assistant professor

    Institute of Informatics, Information Systems and Software Engineering

    of the

    Faculty of Informatics and Information Technologies

  • Patrik Hlavac, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava

    Doctoral student

    Institute of Informatics, Information Systems and Software Engineering

    of the

    Faculty of Informatics and Information Technologies

  • Eduard Kuric, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava

    Assistant professor

    Institute of Informatics, Information Systems and Software Engineering

    of the

    Faculty of Informatics and Information Technologies

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Published

2018-08-20

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Vol. 11 No. 3 (2018)

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Copyright (c) 2018 Maria Bielikova, Martin Konopka, Jakub Simko, Robert Moro, Jozef Tvarozek, Patrik Hlavac, Eduard Kuric

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How to Cite

Eye-tracking en masse: Group user studies, lab infrastructure, and practices. (2018). Journal of Eye Movement Research, 11(3). https://doi.org/10.16910/jemr.11.3.6