EyeMap : a software system for visualizing and analyzing eye movement data in reading

Siliang Tang, Ronan G. Reilly, Christian Vorstius

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    Abstract

    We have developed EyeMap, a freely available software system for visualizing and analyzing eye movement data specifically in the area of reading research. As compared with similar systems, including commercial ones, EyeMap has more advanced features for text stimulus presentation, interest area extraction, eye movement data visualization, and experimental variable calculation. It is unique in supporting binocular data analysis for unicode, proportional, and nonproportional fonts and spaced and unspaced scripts. Consequently, it is well suited for research on a wide range of writing systems. To date, it has been used with English, German, Thai, Korean, and Chinese. EyeMap is platform independent and can also work on mobile devices. An important contribution of the EyeMap project is a device-independent XML data format for describing data from a wide range of reading experiments. An online version of EyeMap allows researchers to analyze and visualize reading data through a standard Web browser. This facility could, for example, serve as a front-end for online eye movement data corpora.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)420-438
    Number of pages19
    JournalBehavior Research Methods
    Volume44
    Issue number2
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2012

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