The Eye Trackers

Meet the women who use eye tracking technology to better understand our reading behaviour. More at http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/research/cral/doku.php

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• eye
• tracking
• linguistics

[metamorphises]

god damn they dont have to script everything they say on the screen

[nottinghamscience]

do you mean the text on the screen, or are you saying the researchers were using a script?

There was no script, and I like the text on screen because the film is all about reading words on screens (then again, I edited the film, so of course I like it!)

[singlespies]

It would be interesting to use this device on artists and art critics to see how they react to works of art in front of them. If I was running the experiment I would try to find out if artworks judged as good by artists and critics shared any "scan" characteristics. -Same with those judged unsuccessful.

[rocketplumber]

Heh. I routinely read about 800 WPM when blasting through a piece of fiction, wonder if the tracker could keep up?

[kurtnelle]

Can't this be done with a high definition camera under the screen? I'd love to get a look at your source code :)

[4jeremy9]

i would definitely like to see this experiment as well...studying film aesthetic of composition and editing shows what makes sense (such as the 180 degree rule--see wikipedia). i think this would also be useful for live video

[ulugbeknur]

This is so cool. Thanks for creating this video tutorial.

[IMakeOrWatchVideos]

I think this can be used in other things. like disable people or possible in my case game. good tech here!

[charbon]

Ah yes, I remember volunteering to do experiments like this at my university.

[Films4You]

Also used to see which parts of webpages are beeing looked at