Xiaoxue Fu, John M Franchak, Leigha A MacNeill, Kelley E Gunther, Jeremy I Borjon, Julia Yurkovic-Harding, Samuel Harding, Jessica Bradshaw, Koraly E Pérez-Edgar
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Abstract
Eye tracking provides direct, temporally and spatially sensitive measures of eye gaze. It can capture visual attention patterns from infancy through adulthood. However, commonly used screen-based eye tracking (SET) paradigms are limited in their depiction of how individuals process information as they interact with the environment in "real life". Mobile eye tracking (MET) records participant-perspective gaze in the context of active behavior. Recent technological developments in MET hardware enable researchers to capture egocentric vision as early as infancy and across the lifespan. However, challenges remain in MET data collection, processing, and analysis. The present paper aims to provide an introduction and practical guide to starting researchers in the field to facilitate the use of MET in psychological research with a wide range of age groups. First, we provide a general introduction to MET. Next, we briefly review MET studies in adults and children that provide new insights into attention and its roles in cognitive and socioemotional functioning. We then discuss technical issues relating to MET data collection and provide guidelines for data quality inspection, gaze annotations, data visualization, and statistical analyses. Lastly, we conclude by discussing the future directions of MET implementation. Open-source programs for MET data quality inspection, data visualization, and analysis are shared publicly.
眼动仪可直接测量眼球注视的时间和空间敏感度。它可以捕捉从婴儿期到成年期的视觉注意力模式。然而,常用的基于屏幕的眼动追踪(SET)范例在描述个人如何在 "现实生活 "中与环境互动时处理信息方面存在局限性。移动眼动仪(MET)可记录参与者在主动行为中的视角注视。移动眼动仪硬件的最新技术发展使研究人员能够捕捉婴儿期和整个生命周期的自我中心视觉。然而,眼动仪数据的收集、处理和分析仍面临挑战。本文旨在为这一领域的研究人员提供入门介绍和实用指南,以促进 MET 在各年龄段心理学研究中的应用。首先,我们将对 MET 进行总体介绍。接着,我们简要回顾了针对成人和儿童的 MET 研究,这些研究为我们提供了关于注意力及其在认知和社会情感功能中的作用的新见解。然后,我们讨论了与 MET 数据收集有关的技术问题,并为数据质量检查、注视注释、数据可视化和统计分析提供了指导。最后,我们讨论了 MET 的未来实施方向。用于 MET 数据质量检查、数据可视化和分析的开源程序已公开共享。
期刊介绍:
Behavior Research Methods publishes articles concerned with the methods, techniques, and instrumentation of research in experimental psychology. The journal focuses particularly on the use of computer technology in psychological research. An annual special issue is devoted to this field.