Aiming for the quiet eye in biathlon

Dan Witzner Hansen; Amelie  Heinrich; Rouwen  Cañal-Bruland

doi:10.1145/3314111.3319850

Aiming for the quiet eye in biathlon

Dan Witzner Hansen
, Amelie Heinrich
, Rouwen Cañal-Bruland

Machine Learning

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The duration of the so-called "Quiet Eye" (QE) - the final fixation before the initiation of a critical movement - seems to be linked to better perceptual-motor performances in various domains. For instance, experts show longer QE durations when compared to their less skilled counterparts. The aim of this paper was to replicate and extend previous work on the QE [Vickers and Williams 2007] in elite biathletes in an ecologically valid environment. Specifically, we tested whether longer QE durations result in higher shooting accuracy. To this end, we developed a gun-mounted eye tracker as a means to obtain reliable gaze data without interfering with the athletes' performance routines. During regular training protocols we collected gaze and performance data of 9 members (age 19.8 ± 0.45) of the German national junior team. The results did not show a significant effect of QE duration on shooting performance. Based on our findings, we critically discuss various conceptual as well as methodological issues with the QE literature that need to be aligned in future research to resolve current inconsistencies.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ETRA '19: Proceedings of the 11th ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications
Number of pages	8
Place of Publication	European Conference on Eye Movements
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Publication date	2019
Pages	1-8
Article number	10
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-6709-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3314111.3319850 https://doi.org/10.1145/3314111.3319850
Publication status	Published - 2019
Event	Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications - Denver, United States Duration: 25 Jun 2019 → 28 Jun 2019 Conference number: 11th https://etra.acm.org/2019/etratoc.html

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Conference	Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications
Number	11th
Country/Territory	United States
City	Denver
Period	25/06/2019 → 28/06/2019
Internet address	https://etra.acm.org/2019/etratoc.html

Keywords

Eye tracking
Quiet Eye
Biathlon

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The Impact of physiological fatigue and gaze behavior on shooting performance in elite and sub-elite biathletes
Heinrich, A., Hansen, D. W., Cañal-Bruland, R. & Stoll, O., Sept 2020, Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport. 9 ed. Elsevier, Vol. 23. p. 883-890 8 p.
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Aiming for the quiet eye in biathlon
Hansen, D. W., Heinrich, A. & Cañal-Bruland, R., 2019, ETRA '19: Proceedings of the 11th ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications. European Conference on Eye Movements: Association for Computing Machinery, p. 1-8 8 p. 10
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Hansen, DW, Heinrich, A & Cañal-Bruland, R 2019, Aiming for the quiet eye in biathlon. in ETRA '19: Proceedings of the 11th ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications., 10, Association for Computing Machinery, European Conference on Eye Movements, pp. 1-8, Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications, Denver, Colorado, United States, 25/06/2019. https://doi.org/10.1145/3314111.3319850, https://doi.org/10.1145/3314111.3319850

Aiming for the quiet eye in biathlon. / Hansen, Dan Witzner; Heinrich, Amelie ; Cañal-Bruland, Rouwen.
ETRA '19: Proceedings of the 11th ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications. European Conference on Eye Movements: Association for Computing Machinery, 2019. p. 1-8 10.

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