Effect of different font sizes and of spaces between words on eye movement performance: An eye tracker study in dyslexic and non-dyslexic children

Optokinetic nystagmus (OKN) is an involuntary eye movement induced by motion of a large proportion of the visual field. It consists of a “slow phase (SP)” with eye movements in the same direction as the movement of the pattern and a “fast phase (FP)” with saccadic eye movements in the opposite direction. Study of OKN can reveal valuable information in ophthalmology, neurology and psychology. However, the current commercially available high-resolution and research-grade eye tracker is usually expensive. Methods & Results: We developed a novel fast and effective system combined with a low-cost eye tracking device to accurately quantitatively measure OKN eye movement. Conclusions: The experimental results indicate that the proposed method achieves fast and promising results in comparisons with several traditional approaches.

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Strong age but weak sex effects in eye movement performance in the general adult population: Evidence from the Rhineland Study

Vision Research ◽

10.1016/j.visres.2020.10.004 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 178 ◽

pp. 124-133

Author(s):

Annabell Coors ◽

Natascha Merten ◽

David D. Ward ◽

Matthias Schmid ◽

Monique M.B. Breteler ◽

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Keyword(s):

Eye Movement ◽

Adult Population ◽

Sex Effects ◽

Movement Performance ◽

General Adult Population

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Eye Movements as a Means to Evaluate Operation Interface of Flat Knitting Machine

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.607.664 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 607 ◽

pp. 664-668

Author(s):

Zhi Hui Liu ◽

Sheng Ze Wang ◽

Qiong Shen ◽

Jia Jun Feng

Keyword(s):

Eye Movements ◽

Eye Movement ◽

Objective Evaluation ◽

Layout Design ◽

Eye Tracker ◽

Heat Maps ◽

Machine Operation

This study investigates the characteristics of eye movements by operating flat knitting machine. For the objective evaluation purpose of the flat knitting machine operation interface, we arrange participants finish operation tasks on the interface, then use eye tracker to analyze and evaluate the layout design. Through testing of the different layout designs, we get fixation sequences, the count of fixation, heat maps, and fixation length. The results showed that the layout design could significantly affect the eye-movement, especially the fixation sequences and the heat maps, the count of fixation and fixation length are always impacted by operation tasks. Overall, data obtained from eye movements can not only be used to evaluate the operation interface, but also significantly enhance the layout design of the flat knitting machine.

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Saccadic eye movement performance as an indicator of driving ability in elderly drivers

Swiss Medical Weekly ◽

10.4414/smw.2015.14098 ◽

2015 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

KU Schmitt ◽

R Seeger ◽

H Fischer ◽

C Lanz ◽

M Muser ◽

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Keyword(s):

Eye Movement ◽

Driving Ability ◽

Saccadic Eye Movement ◽

Elderly Drivers ◽

Movement Performance

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Test and evaluation of advertising effect based on EEG and eye tracker

Translational Neuroscience ◽

10.1515/tnsci-2019-0003 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 14-18

Author(s):

Lingfeng Wang

Keyword(s):

Eye Movement ◽

Marketing Communication ◽

Eye Tracker ◽

Advertising Effect ◽

Test And Evaluation ◽

Advertising Strategies ◽

Theoretical Significance ◽

Implementation Effect

Abstract As a means of marketing communication, advertisements have been applied in the course of enterprise operation. However, in practice, there are many problems with the implementation effect of specific advertisements, so the test and evaluation of the effectiveness of advertising have important practical and theoretical significance. Therefore, this paper uses the EEG and eye movement technology to study the EEG change and eye movement of subjects when viewing advertisements and to conduct processing and analysis of the collected EEG and eye movement indexes. It is expected to provide advertisers with valuable advertising strategies based on the analysis results of EEG change and eye movement experiment.

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Modern Furniture Color Image Based on Eye Tracking

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.157-158.410 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 157-158 ◽

pp. 410-414 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ji Feng Xu ◽

Han Ning Zhang

Keyword(s):

Eye Tracking ◽

Eye Movement ◽

Color Image ◽

Vision System ◽

Human Vision ◽

Relative Importance ◽

Human Vision System ◽

Eye Tracker ◽

Color Features ◽

The Relationship

The relationship between modern furniture color image and eye tracking has been of interest to academics and practitioners for many years. We propose and develop a new view and method exploring these connections, utilizing data from a survey of 31 testees’ eye tracking observed value. Using Tobii X120 eye tracker to analyze eye movement to furniture samples in different hue and tones colors, we highlight the relative importance of the effect of furniture color on human vision system and show that the connections between furniture color features with color image.

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Spatial Attention Shifts in Addition and Subtraction Arithmetic: Evidence of Eye Movement

Perception ◽

10.1177/0301006619865156 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 48 (9) ◽

pp. 835-849 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Rongjuan Zhu ◽

Xuqun You ◽

Shuoqiu Gan ◽

Jinwei Wang

Keyword(s):

Eye Movement ◽

Spatial Attention ◽

Spatial Association ◽

Eye Tracker ◽

Addition And Subtraction ◽

Attention Shifts

Recently, it has been proposed that solving addition and subtraction problems can evoke horizontal shifts of spatial attention. However, prior to this study, it remained unclear whether orienting shifts of spatial attention relied on actual arithmetic processes (i.e., the activated magnitude) or the semantic spatial association of the operator. In this study, spatial–arithmetic associations were explored through three experiments using an eye tracker, which attempted to investigate the mechanism of those associations. Experiment 1 replicated spatial–arithmetic associations in addition and subtraction problems. Experiments 2 and 3 selected zero as the operand to investigate whether these arithmetic problems could induce shifts of spatial attention. Experiment 2 indicated that addition and subtraction problems (zero as the second operand, i.e., 2 + 0) do not induce shifts of spatial attention. Experiment 3 showed that addition and subtraction arithmetic (zero as the first operand, i.e., 0 + 2) do facilitate rightward and leftward eye movement, respectively. This indicates that the operator alone does not induce horizontal eye movement. However, our findings support the idea that solving addition and subtraction problems is associated with horizontal shifts of spatial attention.

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Simulated Hyperopic Anisometropia and Reading, Visual Information Processing, and Reading-Related Eye Movement Performance in Children

Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science ◽

10.1167/iovs.14-15347 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 55 (12) ◽

pp. 8015-8023 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

S. Narayanasamy ◽

S. J. Vincent ◽

G. P. Sampson ◽

J. M. Wood

Keyword(s):

Information Processing ◽

Eye Movement ◽

Visual Information ◽

Visual Information Processing ◽

Movement Performance

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Verbal and Spatial Loading Effects on Eye Movements in Driving Simulators: A Comparison to Real World Driving

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting ◽

10.1177/154193120204602615 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 46 (26) ◽

pp. 2174-2178 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Kim R. Hammel ◽

Donald L. Fisher ◽

Anuj K. Pradhan

Keyword(s):

Eye Movement ◽

Real World ◽

Driving Simulator ◽

Loading Conditions ◽

Eye Tracker ◽

Driving Simulators ◽

The Real ◽

Movement Data ◽

Loading Effects ◽

Functional Field Of View

Driving simulators and eye tracking technology are increasingly being used to evaluate advanced telematics. Many such evaluations are easily generalizable only if drivers' scanning in the virtual environment is similar to their scanning behavior in real world environments. In this study we developed a virtual driving environment designed to replicate the environmental conditions of a previous, real world experiment (Recarte & Nunes, 2000). Our motive was to compare the data collected under three different cognitive loading conditions in an advanced, fixed-base driving simulator with that collected in the real world. In the study that we report, a head mounted eye tracker recorded eye movement data while participants drove the virtual highway in half-mile segments. There were three loading conditions: no loading, verbal loading and spatial loading. Each of the 24 subjects drove in all three conditions. We found that the patterns that characterized eye movement data collected in the simulator were virtually identical to those that characterized eye movement data collected in the real world. In particular, the number of speedometer checks and the functional field of view significantly decreased in the verbal conditions, with even greater effects for the spatial loading conditions.

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The Influence of Articulatory Suppression on Reading Among Chinese Children with Developmental Dyslexia: An Eye-Movement and Case-Control Study

10.21203/rs.3.rs-45291/v1 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Xiuhong Li ◽

Weidong Li ◽

Buyun Liu ◽

Jinxin Zhang ◽

Jingwen Ma ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Eye Movement ◽

Developmental Dyslexia ◽

Reading Ability ◽

High Speed ◽

Articulatory Suppression ◽

Reading Speed ◽

Chinese Children ◽

Phonological Loop ◽

Eye Tracker ◽

Core Deficit

Abstract Background: In Western countries, phonological processing deficit was regard as a core deficit in developmental dyslexia (DD). As Chinese is a logographic language, it’s still controversial whether and how the articulatory suppression influences reading ability and processing of Chinese children with DD. The study aimed to examine how the phonological loop influences reading ability and processing in Chinese children with DD.Methods: This study included 30 children with DD and 37 children without DD. Two types of articles (i.e., scenery prose and narrative story) and two conditions (under the conditions of articulatory-suppression and silent reading) were applied. An eye-link II High-Speed Eye Tracker was used to track a series of eye-movement parameters. The data was analyzed by the linear Mixed-Effects model. Results: Compared with children without DD, Children with DD had lower reading achievement (RA), frequency of saccades (FS) and frequency of fixations (FF), longer reading time (RT) and average fixation duration (AFD), slower reading speed (RS), shorter average saccade amplitude (ASA) and fixation distance (FD), more number of fixations (NF) and number of saccades (NS). There were significant interactions between participant group and articulatory suppression on RT and FD. We also observed interaction effects between article types and articulatory suppression on RA, AFD, ASA, and FS.Conclusion: Children DD exhibit abnormal phonological loop and eye movements while reading. The role of the articulatory suppression on reading varies with the presentation of DD and the article type.

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