The Viability of Web-based Eye Tracking

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dc.contributor.authorvanWell, Amy
dc.contributor.supervisorTanaka, James William
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-26T17:28:32Z
dc.date.available2023-05-26T17:28:32Z
dc.date.copyright2023en_US
dc.date.issued2023-05-26
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Psychologyen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Science M.Sc.en_US
dc.description.abstractThe recent COVID-19 pandemic has forced vision scientists to develop innovative, online solutions to their research questions. After the introduction of new open-source software and improvements in personal laptop hardware, researchers have been able to recreate increasingly sophisticated measures online historically only measured in-person. In this paper, we explore the boundaries of online research to describe the development and testing of a new web-based eye tracking system, “Gazer”. Gazer is an accessible eye tracking system for vision scientists that harnesses the open-source Webgazer to record screen-based gaze locations, using the cameras present in participant’s personal laptops. We directly compare Gazer to the established Eyelink 1000 in two separate experiments, and determine it has comparable temporal and spatial precision for recording fast exogenous eye movements, and endogenous movements. In a final experiment, we record the development of gaze strategies in a repeated remote visual search task to indicate Gazer’s potential to address sophisticated attentional research questions. Overall, we present Gazer as a viable method for researchers to conduct gaze-based research online.en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/15130
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectEye trackingen_US
dc.subjectweb-baseden_US
dc.subjectweb-based eye trackingen_US
dc.subjectcognitive psychologyen_US
dc.subjectvisual attentionen_US
dc.subjectvisual searchen_US
dc.titleThe Viability of Web-based Eye Trackingen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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