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Gaze in Action: Head-mounted Eye Tracking of Children's Dynamic Visual Attention During Naturalistic Behavior
Published on: November 14, 2018
How robust are wearable eye trackers to slow and fast head and body movements?
Ignace T C Hooge1, Diederick C Niehorster2, Roy S Hessels3
1Experimental Psychology, Helmholtz Institute, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands. i.hooge@uu.nl.
Abstract:
How well can modern wearable eye trackers cope with head and body movement? To investigate this question, we asked four participants to stand still, walk, skip, and jump while fixating a static physical target in space. We did this for six different eye trackers. All the eye trackers were capable of recording gaze during the most dynamic episodes (skipping and jumping). The accuracy became worse as movement got wilder. During skipping and jumping, the biggest error was 5.8∘. However, most errors were smaller than 3∘. We discuss the implications of decreased accuracy in the context of different research scenarios.

