Low Cost vs. High-End Eye Tracking for Usability Testing

Sune Alstrup Johansen; Javier San Agustin; Henrik Tomra Skovsgaard Hegner Jensen; John Paulin Hansen; Martin Tall

doi:10.1145/1979742.1979744

Low Cost vs. High-End Eye Tracking for Usability Testing

Sune Alstrup Johansen, Javier San Agustin, Henrik Tomra Skovsgaard Hegner Jensen, John Paulin Hansen, Martin Tall

Duke University

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Accuracy of an open source remote eye tracking system and a state-of-the-art commercial eye tracker was measured 4 times during a usability test. Results from 9 participants showed both devices to be fairly stable over time, but the commercial tracker was more accurate with a mean error of 31 pixels against 59 pixels using the low cost system. This suggests that low cost eye tracking can become a viable alternative, when usability studies need not to distinguish between, for instance, particular words or menu items that participants are looking at, but only between larger areas-of-interest they pay attention to.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2011 annual conference on Human factors in computing systems
Number of pages	6
Volume	CHI 2011
Place of Publication	New York, NY, USA
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Publication date	7 May 2011
Edition	Extended Abstracts
Pages	1177-1182
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-0268-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1979742.1979744
Publication status	Published - 7 May 2011

Keywords

Open source eye tracking
Commercial eye tracker
Usability testing
Eye tracking accuracy
Areas-of-interest

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Low Cost vs. High-End Eye Tracking for Usability Testing. / Johansen, Sune Alstrup; San Agustin, Javier; Jensen, Henrik Tomra Skovsgaard Hegner et al.
Proceedings of the 2011 annual conference on Human factors in computing systems . Vol. CHI 2011 Extended Abstracts. ed. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, 2011. p. 1177-1182.

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