TY - JOUR
T1 - Which eye tracker is right for your research? Performance evaluation of several cost variant eye trackers
AU - Funke, Gregory
AU - Greenlee, Eric
AU - Carter, Martha
AU - Dukes, Allen
AU - Brown, Rebecca
AU - Menke, Lauren
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright 2016 by Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Though not often mentioned, the price point of many eye tracking systems may be a factor limiting their adoption in research. Recently, several inexpensive eye trackers have appeared on the market, but to date little systematic research has been conducted to validate these systems. The present experiment attempted to address this gap by evaluating and comparing five different eye trackers, the Eye Tribe Tracker, Tobii EyeX, Seeing Machines faceLAB, Smart Eye Pro, and Smart Eye Aurora for their gaze tracking accuracy and precision. Results suggest that all evaluated trackers maintained acceptable accuracy and precision, but lower cost systems frequently also experienced high rates of data loss, suggesting that researchers adopting low cost systems such as those evaluated here should be judicious in their research usage.
AB - Though not often mentioned, the price point of many eye tracking systems may be a factor limiting their adoption in research. Recently, several inexpensive eye trackers have appeared on the market, but to date little systematic research has been conducted to validate these systems. The present experiment attempted to address this gap by evaluating and comparing five different eye trackers, the Eye Tribe Tracker, Tobii EyeX, Seeing Machines faceLAB, Smart Eye Pro, and Smart Eye Aurora for their gaze tracking accuracy and precision. Results suggest that all evaluated trackers maintained acceptable accuracy and precision, but lower cost systems frequently also experienced high rates of data loss, suggesting that researchers adopting low cost systems such as those evaluated here should be judicious in their research usage.
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U2 - 10.1177/1541931213601289
DO - 10.1177/1541931213601289
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85020026707
SN - 1071-1813
SP - 1239
EP - 1243
JO - Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
JF - Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
T2 - Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 2016 International Annual Meeting, HFES 2016
Y2 - 19 September 2016 through 23 September 2016
ER -