HFES Perception and Performance Technical Group Webinar: Eye Tracking: How to Capture and Interpret User’s Point of View and Operator’s Gaze Strategies

Presented by: The Perception and Performance Technical Group

As eye tracking technologies become more accessible and provide higher quality data, they are increasingly being used to identify new nuances in human performance. Gaze patterns and dwell times can be recorded with these technologies, which give insights into how people allocate their attention and the information processing occurring on a given task. This has many uses - for example, identifying how experts take in information differently from novices, which products consumers are drawn on a cluttered store shelf, or where drivers look for safety-relevant information. Eye tracking also comes with drawbacks, however. The main concern is the strict environment control required in most cases to gather valid data - changes in lighting, cognitive workload, or posture of the human can all hinder the validity of the data or ability of the eye tracker. This reduces the usefulness of these technologies in real settings where strict control is impossible, although recent advances have begun to overcome some of these limitations. This webinar will discuss how eye tracking technologies can be used in controlled simulated environments for operator safety, and how they can be used in real-world contexts for consumers. Dr. Sampath Jayarathna will discuss how eye tracking technologies can be used in controlled simulated environments to better understand gaze behaviour strategies and how they relate to operator task performance. Ir. Rutger Stuut will delve into the use case of advancing AR and AI by leveraging egocentric data collection through smart glasses.