Using eye tracking to examine age-related differences in web site performance

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer C. Romano
Keyword(s):  
Eye Tracking ◽  
Web Site ◽  
Age Related

scholarly journals Anxiety-Related Attention Bias in Four- to Eight-Year-Olds: An Eye-Tracking Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 194
Author(s):  
Suzannah Stuijfzand ◽  
Bobby Stuijfzand ◽  
Shirley Reynolds ◽  
Helen Dodd
Keyword(s):  
Eye Tracking ◽  
Effortful Control ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Attention Bias ◽  
Overt Attention ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Neutral Face ◽  
Moderation Model ◽  
Development Of Anxiety

(1) Background: There is evidence of an attention bias–anxiety relationship in children, but lack of appropriate methods has limited the number of studies with children younger than eight years old. This study used eye tracking as a measure of overt attention in young children. The aim of this study was to assess anxiety-related attention bias in children aged four to eight years. Age was considered a moderator, and the influence of effortful control was investigated. (2) Method: A community sample of 104 children was shown pairs of happy–neutral and angry–neutral faces. Growth curve analyses were used to examine patterns of gaze over time. (3) Results: Analyses revealed moderation by age and anxiety, with distinct patterns of anxiety-related biases seen in different age groups in the angry–neutral face trials. Effortful control did not account for age-related effects. (4) Conclusions: The results support a moderation model of the development of anxiety in children.

scholarly journals Anxiety Related Attention Bias in Four to Eight-Year-Olds: An Eye-Tracking Study

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzannah Stuijfzand ◽  
Shirley Reynolds ◽  
Bobby Stuijfzand ◽  
Helen Dodd
Keyword(s):  
Eye Tracking ◽  
Effortful Control ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Attention Bias ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Neutral Face ◽  
Moderation Model ◽  
Development Of Anxiety ◽  
Robust Evidence

(1) Background: There is robust evidence of an attention bias-anxiety relationship in children, but lack of appropriate methods has limited the number of studies with children younger than 8 years old. This study used eye-tracking as a measure of overt attention in young children. The aim of this study was to assess anxiety related attention bias in children aged 4 to 8 years. Age was considered as a moderator and the influence of effortful control was investigated. (2) Method: A community sample of 104 children were shown pairs of happy-neutral and angry-neutral faces. Growth curve analyses were used to examine patterns of gaze over time. (3) Results: Analyses revealed moderation by age and anxiety, with distinct patterns of anxiety-related biases seen in different age groups in the angry-neutral face trials. Effortful control did not account for age related effects. (4) Conclusions: Results support a moderation model of the development of anxiety in children.

scholarly journals Aging and eye tracking: in the quest for objective biomarkers

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. FNL33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramtin Z Marandi ◽  
Parisa Gazerani
Keyword(s):  
Eye Movements ◽  
Eye Tracking ◽  
Cognitive Impairments ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Active Aging ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Pupillary Responses

Recent applications of eye tracking for diagnosis, prognosis and follow-up of therapy in age-related neurological or psychological deficits have been reviewed. The review is focused on active aging, neurodegeneration and cognitive impairments. The potential impacts and current limitations of using characterizing features of eye movements and pupillary responses (oculometrics) as objective biomarkers in the context of aging are discussed. A closer look into the findings, especially with respect to cognitive impairments, suggests that eye tracking is an invaluable technique to study hidden aspects of aging that have not been revealed using any other noninvasive tool. Future research should involve a wider variety of oculometrics, in addition to saccadic metrics and pupillary responses, including nonlinear and combinatorial features as well as blink- and fixation-related metrics to develop biomarkers to trace age-related irregularities associated with cognitive and neural deficits.

scholarly journals Effect of Cognitive Control on Attentional Processing of Emotional Information Among Older Adults: Evidence From an Eye-Tracking Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haining Liu ◽  
Haihong Liu ◽  
Feng Li ◽  
Buxin Han ◽  
Cuili Wang
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Cognitive Control ◽  
Eye Tracking ◽  
Healthy Aging ◽  
Older Individuals ◽  
Younger Adults ◽  
Spatial Cueing ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Cueing Task ◽  
Engagement And Disengagement

Background: Although numerous studies have suggested that the gradually increasing selective preference for positive information over negative information in older adults depends on cognitive control processes, few have reported the characteristics of different attention stages in the emotional processing of older individuals. The present study used a real-time eye-tracking technique to disentangle the attentional engagement and disengagement processes involved in age-related positivity effect (PE).Methods: Eye movement data from a spatial-cueing task were obtained for 32 older and 32 younger healthy participants. The spatial-cueing task with varied cognitive loads appeared to be an effective way to explore the role of cognitive control during the attention engagement and disengagement stages of emotion processing.Results: Compared with younger adults, older participants showed more positive gaze preferences when cognitive resources were sufficient for face processing at the attention engagement stage. However, the age-related PE was not observed at the attention disengagement stage because older adults had more difficulty disengaging from fearful faces than did the younger adults due to the consumption of attention by the explicit target judgment.Conclusion: The present study highlights how cognitive control moderates positive gaze preferences at different attention processing stages. These findings may have far-reaching implications for understanding, preventing, and intervening in unsuccessful aging and, thus, in promoting active and healthy aging.

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