Abstracts from SWAET 2010

The booklet containing the abstracts for the Scandinavian Workshop on Applied Eye Tracking (SWAET) is now available for download, 55 pages about 1Mb. The abstracts spans a wide range from gaze interaction to behavior and perception. A short one page format makes it attractive to venture into a multitude of domains and acts as a nice little starting point for digging deeper. Shame I couldn't attend, maybe next year. Kudos for making this booklet available.

Title	Authors
Eye movements during mental imagery are not perceptual re-enactments	R. Johansson, J. Holsanova, K. Holmqvist
Practice eliminates "looking at nothing"	A. Scholz, K. Mehlhorn, J.F. Krems
Learning Perceptual Skills for Medical Diagnosis via Eye Movement  Modeling Examples on Patient Video Cases	H. Jarodzka, T. Balslev, K. Holmqvist, K. Scheiter, M. Nyström, P. Gerjets, B. Eika
Objective, subjective, and commercial information: The impact of presentation format on the visual inspection and selection of Web search results	Y. Kammerer, P. Gerjets
Eye Movements and levels of attention: A stimulus driven approach	F.B. Mulvey, K. Holmqvist, J.P Hansen
Player‟s gaze in a collaborative Tetris game	P Jermann, M-A Nüssli, W. Li
Naming associated objects: Evidence for parallel processing	L. Mortensen , A.S. Meyer
Reading Text Messages - An Eye-Tracking Study on the Influence of Shortening Strategies on Reading Comprehension	V. Heyer, H. Hopp
Eye movement measures to study the online comprehension of long (illustrated) texts	J. Hyönä, J.K, Kaakinen
Self-directed Learning Skills in Air-traffic Control; A Cued Retrospective Reporting Study	L.W. van Meeuwen, S. Brand-Gruwel, J.J. G. van Merriënboer, J. J.P.R. de Bock, P.A. Kirschner
Drivers‟ characteristic sequences of eye and head movements in intersections	A. Bjelkemyr, K. Smith
Comparing the value of different cues when using the retrospective think aloud method in web usability testing with eye tracking	A. Olsen
Gaze behavior and instruction sensitivity of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders when viewing pictures of social scenes	B. Rudsengen, F. Volden
Impact of cognitive workload on gaze-including interaction	S. Trösterer, J. Dzaack
Interaction with mainstream interfaces using gaze alone	H. Skovsgaard, J. P. Hansen, J.C. Mateo
Stereoscopic Eye Movement Tracking: Challenges and Opportunities in 3D	G. Öqvist Seimyr, A. Appelholm, H. Johansson R. Brautaset
Sampling frequency – what speed do I need?	R. Andersson, M. Nyström, K. Holmqvist
Effect of head-distance on raw gaze velocity	M-A Nüssli, P. Jermann
Quantifying and modelling factors that influence calibration and data quality	M. Nyström, R. Andersson,  J. van de Weijer

Scandinavian Workshop on Applied Eye-tracking (SWAET) 2010.

The first call for papers for the annual Scandinavian Workshop on Applied Eye-Tracking (SWAET) organized by Kenneth Holmqvist and the team at the Lund University Humanities laboratory was just announced. The SWAET 2010 will be held in Lund, Sweden between May 5-7th. The invited speaker is Gerry Altmann (blog) from the Dept. of Psychology at University of York, UK and Ignace Hooge (s1, s2) from the Dept. of Psychology at Utrecht University, Holland.

Visit the SWAET website for more information.

Update: Download the abstracts (pdf, 1Mb)

SWAET 2009 Annouced

The Scandinavian Workshop of Applied Eye-Tracking aims at being a meeting place for graduate students, researchers and others using eye-tracking as a measuring tool. It will be held at the University of Stavanger (May 6- 7th). Keynote speakers at SWAET 2009 are Dr Benjamin Tatler (University of Dundee) and Prof Jukka Hyönä (University of Turku).

Suggested topics for workshop presentations:

• Reading in various contexts
  
• Psycholinguistics
  
• Integration of pictures and language
  
• Face-to-face interaction and other social contexts
  
• Attention (such as top-down/bottom-up factors)
  
• Controlling interfaces with eye-tracking
  
• Viewer behaviour towards images and video
  
• Vehicle and traffic research
  
• Human factors; such as air traffic control, ship navigation and pilots
  
• Evaluation of user interfaces
  
• Cognitive processes such as navigation, planning, problem solving, mental imagery, memory etc.

If you wish to present your research, you have to submit an abstract no later than March 15th 2009. Decisions on acceptance are given on April 1st.

Registration at the conference is € 50 for all delegates except graduate and undergraduate students, who participate free of charge. After April 10th, expect to pay € 80 (students € 30).

SWAET Conference

The first day of the SWAET 2008 conference at Lund University was filled with interesting presentations and inspiring conversations. Finally I had a chance to meet some of the researchers that I´ve know mainly by their publications and last names.

From the schedule of day one three talks stand out in the field of gaze interaction. These are recorded on video with the intention of future online distribution. For now enjoy these papers.

• Javier San Agustin Lopez, Julio C. Mateo and John Paulin Hanse. Hands-free selection by Combining Gaze and EMG

• Henrik H. T. Skovsgaard, and John Paulin Hansen. Zoom selection by gaze

• Yvonne Kammerer, Katharina Scheiter, Wolfgang Beinhauer. The impact of menu design and multimodal input on gaze-based menu selection

The conference was attended by three manufacturers, SMI, SmartEye and Tobii which all had systems on display.

The SMI system demonstrated was brought up from the dark dungeons of the lab to host the prototype I have been working on for the last couple of months. In general, it was well received and served its purpose of a eye catching demonstration of my "next-gen" gaze interface. To sum up it was great to get out there to gather feedback confirming that I´m on the right track. (doubts sometimes rise when working solo) The day ended with a a lovely dinner at the university´s finest dining hall.

Big thank you goes out to Kenneth Holmqvist, Jana Holsanova, Philip Diderichsen, Nils Holmberg, Richard Andersson and Janna Spanne for hosting this event.