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

S.A. Johansen; Javier San Agustin; H. T. S. H. Jensen; John Paulin Hansen; Martin Tall

doi:10.1145/1979742.1979744

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

S.A. Johansen
, Javier San Agustin
, H. T. S. H. Jensen
, John Paulin Hansen
, Martin Tall

IT University of Copenhagen

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Abstract

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
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Publication date	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 - 2011
Externally published	Yes
Event	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Vancouver, Canada Duration: 7 May 2011 → 12 May 2011

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Conference	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Vancouver
Period	07/05/2011 → 12/05/2011

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Johansen, SA, San Agustin, J, Jensen, HTSH, Hansen, JP & Tall, M 2011, Low Cost vs. High-End Eye Tracking for Usability Testing. in Proceedings of the 2011 annual conference on Human factors in computing systems. Extended Abstracts edn, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 1177-1182, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 07/05/2011. https://doi.org/10.1145/1979742.1979744

Low Cost vs. High-End Eye Tracking for Usability Testing. / Johansen, S.A.; San Agustin, Javier; Jensen, H. T. S. H. et al.
Proceedings of the 2011 annual conference on Human factors in computing systems. Extended Abstracts. ed. Association for Computing Machinery, 2011. p. 1177-1182.

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