Finding the Way at Katowice Railway Station: An Eye Tracking Experiment

2021 ◽  
pp. 548-558
Author(s):  
Anton Pashkevich ◽  
Eduard Bairamov ◽  
Marcin J. Kłos ◽  
Tomasz E. Burghardt ◽  
Matúš Šucha
Keyword(s):  
Eye Tracking ◽  
Railway Station ◽  
The Way

scholarly journals Eye-tracking support for architects, conservators, and museologists. Anastylosis as pretext for research and discussion

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Rusnak
Keyword(s):  
Eye Tracking ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
Management Processes ◽  
Historical Objects ◽  
Conservation Projects ◽  
Sustainable Conservation ◽  
The Way

AbstractConservators, museologists, and architects make extremely complex decisions capable of affecting the way people perceive monuments. One might give this idea deeper consideration while pondering anastylosis. One of the things a designer should do when selecting a method of merging together parts of a damaged monument is answer the question whether the chosen method will facilitate the interest of onlookers in the presented object. In which case will the observers spend most of their time looking at the authentic relic fragments and distinguishing between the old and the new parts? The definitions in force do not explain how to approach this topic. By using eye-tracking research, we can learn how observers look at historical objects that have been reassembled again. By combining the observation of visual behaviours with a survey of people looking at such objects, it is possible to see how the process of classifying what is new and old actually works. This knowledge allows for more conscious approach to heritage management processes. In future, results of eye-tracking experiments should help experts plan sustainable conservation projects. Thanks to knowing the reactions of regular people, one will be able to establish conservation programmes in which the material preservation of a monument will reflect the way in which this object affects contemporary onlookers. Such an approach ought to result in real social and economic benefits.

scholarly journals The Way Dogs (Canis familiaris) Look at Human Emotional Faces Is Modulated by Oxytocin. An Eye-Tracking Study

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Kis ◽  
Anna Hernádi ◽  
Bernadett Miklósi ◽  
Orsolya Kanizsár ◽  
József Topál
Keyword(s):  
Eye Tracking ◽  
Canis Familiaris ◽  
Emotional Faces ◽  
The Way

scholarly journals How the fear of COVID-19 changed the way we look at human faces

PeerJ ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. e11380
Author(s):  
Giovanni Federico ◽  
Donatella Ferrante ◽  
Francesco Marcatto ◽  
Maria Antonella Brandimonte
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Visual Attention ◽  
Eye Tracking ◽  
Perceived Risk ◽  
Human Faces ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Basic Level ◽  
The Way

Do we look at persons currently or previously affected by COVID-19 the same way as we do with healthy ones? In this eye-tracking study, we investigated how participants (N = 54) looked at faces of individuals presented as “COVID-19 Free”, “Sick with COVID-19”, or “Recovered from COVID-19”. Results showed that participants tend to look at the eyes of COVID-19-free faces longer than at those of both COVID-19-related faces. Crucially, we also found an increase of visual attention for the mouth of the COVID-19-related faces, possibly due to the threatening characterisation of such area as a transmission vehicle for SARS-CoV-2. Thus, by detailing how people dynamically changed the way of looking at faces as a function of the perceived risk of contagion, we provide the first evidence in the literature about the impact of the pandemic on the most basic level of social interaction.

scholarly journals Layout changes in the textbook for learning English and their influence on the dyslexic students’ work effectiveness – an eye-tracking analysis

2020 ◽  
pp. 77-95
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Andrychowicz-Trojanowska
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Eye Tracking ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
Work Effectiveness ◽  
Areas Of Interest ◽  
Dyslexic Students ◽  
The Way ◽  
Learning English

The aim of the following article is to present the results of the second part of an eye-tracking study conducted on Polish secondary school students working with a textbook for learning English. Because of the fact that almost every group of school students consists of both dyslexic and non-dyslexic ones and that all of them use the same textbooks, we wanted to examine if we can adjust the textbook for learning English in such a way as to influence (i.e. improve) the way the students work with it. To check it we used a real-existing layout of a textbook page and its changed version and checked how dyslexic and nondyslexic students worked with them. In the article we present the eye-tracking parameters for so called areas of interest as well as correctness of the answers which is a nonoculomotor parameter.

scholarly journals Mixing things up: How blocking and mixing affect the processing of codemixed sentences

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 584-611 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael A Johns ◽  
Jorge R Valdés Kroff ◽  
Paola E Dussias
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Design ◽  
Eye Tracking ◽  
Mixed Mode ◽  
Experimental Manipulation ◽  
Heritage Speakers ◽  
Modes Of Presentation ◽  
Reading Measures ◽  
Heritage Speakers Of Spanish ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The Way

Aims and objectives/purpose/research questions: The goal of this study is to determine if the way in which codemixed sentences are presented during experimental lab sessions affects the way they are processed, and how experimental design approximates (or not) patterns of language use in bilingual populations. Design/methodology/approach: An eye-tracking study was conducted comparing reading times on codemixed and unilingual Spanish sentences across two modes of presentation: (a) a blocked mode, where one block contained unilingual Spanish sentences and another one contained codemixed sentences; and (b) a mixed mode, where both unilingual and codemixed sentences were mixed together in a randomized fashion. Data and analysis: 20 heritage speakers of Spanish were tested. Four reading measures extracted from the eye-tracking data were subjected to linear mixed-effects regression, with significance determined via backwards likelihood ratio tests, to examine differences across modes of presentation. Findings/conclusions: Codemixes took significantly longer to process in the blocked mode than in the mixed mode. This is in line with corpus data suggesting that intra-sentential codemixing does not occur for long stretches of time and is broken up by unilingual discourse. Originality: While a few studies have hinted at the potential confounds related to the presentation of codemixed or language-switching stimuli, the direct effects of experimental manipulation coupled with insights from sociolinguistic or corpus-based studies have not been tested. Significance/implications: To better understand bilingual codemixing, as well as the cost (or lack thereof) associated with it, lab-based studies of codemixing should take insights from sociolinguistic and corpus-based research. The results of this study suggest that the experience that participants bring into the lab can interact with experimental design and result in unexpected results.

Arrival

Architects ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 15-18
Author(s):  
Thomas Yarrow
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Valley Bottom ◽  
Railway Station ◽  
Architectural Practice ◽  
High Street ◽  
Discount Stores ◽  
The Way

Tomas picks me up from Stroud railway station to take me to the office of Millar Howard Workshop (MHW), where his architectural practice is based. It’s the first hot day of the year; suddenly summer is here. On the way we tour through the center of town. Victorian buildings have a faded grandeur hearkening back to the town’s heyday when the woolen industry brought prosperity to Stroud. Boarded-up storefronts, charity shops, and discount stores sit next to high street chains. Though Stroud is in the Cotswolds, a place synonymous with an English pastoral idyll, it is not quite of it. We proceed along the valley bottom, following the railway, the canal, and the stream, the infrastructure of a nineteenth-century economy of a bygone era. The woolen mills closed long ago; some factory buildings remain derelict while others have been converted to serve an economy that now revolves around services, retail, and small-scale manufacturing: garages, a bike shop, a craft brewery, artists’ studios, some light engineering. The money now resides in the surrounding villages, whose population of retirees and commuters is growing, a wealthy demographic from which most of Tomas’s clients are drawn....

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