The Lund Eye-Tracking Academy is the only regular university-based crash course in eye-tracking methodology. It is built around the book "Eye tracking: a comprehensive guide to measures and methods", which the course teachers have written.

Instructors: Kerstin Gidlöf (Decision making in everyday environments, currently on parental leave), Nils Holmberg (Newspaper reading and web studies), Kenneth Holmqvist (Assoc. Prof. and expert in eye-tracking), Richard Andersson (Psycholinguistics), and Marcus Nyström(Scene perception, algorithms). Missing: Roger Johansson (Mental imagery, reading while writing), Richard Dewhurst (Training eye-movements, combined EEG/eye-tracking), Philip Pärnamets (moral decision making), Linnea Larsson (event detection) and Jana Holsanova (Assoc. Prof. in Cognitive Science).

All instructors are active researchers. They do not represent or favour any single manufacturer.

Latest news:

2011-09-26: Next course is February 15-17, 2012. Sign up here (Registration is now closed. The course is full).

About the course:

Although eye-tracking research can be both fascinating and extremely useful, conducting good eye-tracking research requires a certain minimum knowledge.

The Lund eye-tracking academy (LETA) is a three day intensive course in eye-tracking. It is designed to help people who are beginning with eye-tracking research to acquire sufficient knowledge to conduct their own, scientifically sound experiment. The course provides theoretical understanding and practical advice on how to design an experiment, how to record high-quality data, and how to analyze the collected data.

Lectures are mixed with practical hands-on exercises during the course. You will work with pre-defined sample experiments, from experimental design to data analysis. Participants will mainly train on state-of-the-art eye-trackers from SensoMotoric Instruments (SMI), but the course is largely hardware independent and open to users of other systems. Focus is less on how to operate the software, however; and more on the thinking behind an eye-tracking experiment. If you have previously taken training at a manufacturer course (such as example of manufacturer training course), LETA is an excellent way to deepen your understanding of the workflow in eye-tracking research.

Teaching is structured around the standard on eye-tracking methodology (Eye Tracking - A comprehensive guide to methods and measures). We advice you to acquire a copy before the course, but if that is not possible, we have spare copies for sale.

The number if participants is limited, in order to give everyone enough hands-on time with systems and the possibility to talk to the instructors about the participants own research questions.

We recommend that PhD students should get 2 ECTS for this course.

To see what previous participants thought about the course, and to read their advice to future participants, click here.

The 9th LETA course will take place 15-17 February, 2012 (Registration is open. Sign up now!).

In collaboration with selected manufacturers

SMI offers discounts for recent and future customers; see the SMI website for this course at: SMI LETA page. We always have the latest hard- and software from SMI, including the new RED500 and the SMI glasses.

Tobii kindly provided us with a remote T120 eye-tracker for use in the course (September 2010, February 2011).

NAC provided a headmounted system for use in the course (February 2010).

You will also have the chance to test the ITU gaze tracker during the course. It is a web-camera based, low-cost alternative to commercial systems. Many thanks to the gaze group at the IT University in Copenhagen for providing this system.

Hope to see you in Lund soon!

/LETA organizers