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Word-Sized Eye-Tracking Visualizations

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Eye Tracking and Visualization (ETVIS 2015)

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In user studies, eye tracking is often used in combination with other recordings, such as think-aloud protocols. However, it is difficult to analyze the eye-tracking data and transcribed recordings together because of missing data alignment and integration. We suggest the use of word-sized eye-tracking visualizations to augment the transcript with important events that occurred concurrently to the transcribed activities. We explore the design space of such graphics by discussing how existing eye-tracking visualizations can be scaled down to word size. The suggested visualizations can optionally be combined with other event-based data such as interaction logs. We demonstrate our concept by a prototypical analysis tool.

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Fabian Beck is indebted to the Baden-Württemberg Stiftung for the financial support of this research project within the Postdoctoral Fellowship for Leading Early Career Researchers.

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    Fabian Beck, Tanja Blascheck, Thomas Ertl & Daniel Weiskopf

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Beck, F., Blascheck, T., Ertl, T., Weiskopf, D. (2017). Word-Sized Eye-Tracking Visualizations. In: Burch, M., Chuang, L., Fisher, B., Schmidt, A., Weiskopf, D. (eds) Eye Tracking and Visualization. ETVIS 2015. Mathematics and Visualization. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47024-5_7

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