The program runs from 09:00 in the morning to between 16:00 and 18:00 in the evening. The last day of the course ends around 15:00. On the first day of the course, we meet in the cafe at the SOL-center at 09.00.

A schedule can be found here.

Course contents

• Pro and cons of head-mounted, remote and tower-mounted eye-trackers.

• High sampling rate and detailed precision – who needs it?

• Gaze-overlaid videos vs data files – what can you do with them?

• How to set-up and calibrate on a variety of participants on different eye-trackers?

• Glasses, contact lenses, mascara, and drooping eyelids – what to do?

• How to work with stimulus programs, and synchronize them with eye-tracking recordings?

• How to deal with the consent forms and ethical issues?

• Introduction to experimental design: Potentials and pitfalls.

• Visualisation of data vs number crunching.

• Fast data analysis of multi-user experiments.

• Fixation durations, saccadic amplitudes, transition diagrams, group similarity measures, and all the other measures – what do they tell us? What are the pitfalls?

Teaching methods

Lectures on selected topics (8h)

Practical work in our laboratory on experiments prepared beforehand: Handling and recording on participants (9h). Practical work with data analysis (3h). You will work in groups of 4-6 participants.

Eye-tracking systems available for this training:

SMI HED 50/200 Hz with Polhemus Head-tracking

2*SMI HiSpeed 500/1250 Hz

SMI RED250 remote system 60/120/250 Hz

SMI RED500 remote system

SMI HED-mobile 50/200 Hz

SMI glasses

EyeLink1000

ITU gaze tracker

+ other systems pending availability