Towards automated comparison of eye-tracking recordings in dynamic scenes

Thomas C. Kubler, Dennis R. Bukenberger, Judith Ungewiss, Alexandra Worner, Colleen Rothe, Ulrich Schiefer, Wolfgang Rosenstiel, Enkelejda Kasneci

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Abstract

Experiments involving eye-tracking usually require analysis of large data. While there is a rich landscape of tools to extract information about fixations and saccades from such data, the analysis at a higher level of abstraction (e.g., comparison of visual scanpaths between subjects) is still performed manually. Especially, the comparison of scanpaths derived from dynamic scenarios, where the observer is in permanent interaction with her environment, is highly challenging. In this work we (i) introduce a new work-flow for automated scanpath comparison in dynamic environments, which combines image processing, object tracking, and sequence comparison algorithms, and (ii) provide a new data set for performance evaluation of scanpath comparison methods that was extracted from eye-tracking data during an interactive tea-cooking task, referring to the experiments by Land et al. [1]. Furthermore, to showcase the applicability of our work-flow, we applied our method to the above data set to find differences in visual behavior between several runs for the tea-cooking task.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEUVIP 2014 - 5th European Workshop on Visual Information Processing
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781479945726
DOIs
StatePublished - 22 Jan 2015
Externally publishedYes
Event5th European Workshop on Visual Information Processing, EUVIP 2014 - Paris, France
Duration: 10 Dec 201412 Dec 2014

Publication series

NameEUVIP 2014 - 5th European Workshop on Visual Information Processing

Conference

Conference5th European Workshop on Visual Information Processing, EUVIP 2014
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityParis
Period10/12/1412/12/14

Keywords

  • Scan pattern
  • area of interest annotation
  • automation
  • eye tracking data analysis
  • image segmentation
  • scanpath comparison

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