Psychology

Eye-tracking Laboratories

Our eye-tracking laboratories allow our students and researchers to efficiently monitor behaviour indicative of attention. Studies to date have included visual psychophysics studies, applied research that requires precise control over the visual environment, and studies about attention, object recognition, face recognition, scene perception, infant social engagement, and detection of deceptive behaviour in witnesses. It is equipped with four eye-tracking systems.

The SR Research Eyelink II is a head-mounted video-based system that can measure gaze position and pupil size up to 500 times per second. The SR Research Eyelink 1000 is a desk-mounted video-based system that can measure gaze position and pupil size up to 1000 times per second. Both of these are strongly linked to computer-based displays and are ideal for studies of saccadic movements or studies that change displays contingent on where observers are gazing.

The SMI iView xRED is a user-friendly eye-tracking system that allows a fairly still, seated or standing observer to look at either a monitor or another single-plane display. The SMI iView xHED system is our most flexible system: a head-mounted and video-based system with peripheral parts that can be worn in a backpack, allowing tracking of behaviour while observers are ambulatory, in or out of the laboratory. It can be used in the human-movement laboratory, where head and body movements can be tracked synchronously, or in a real-world environment.

The two eye tracking laboratories are well-equipped, distraction-free environments with controllable lighting.

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