DOI: 10.3758/s13428-011-0156-yOnline First™

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EyeMap: a software system for visualizing and analyzing eye movement data in reading

Siliang Tang, Ronan G. Reilly and Christian Vorstius

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Abstract

We have developed EyeMap, a freely available software system for visualizing and analyzing eye movement data specifically in the area of reading research. As compared with similar systems, including commercial ones, EyeMap has more advanced features for text stimulus presentation, interest area extraction, eye movement data visualization, and experimental variable calculation. It is unique in supporting binocular data analysis for unicode, proportional, and nonproportional fonts and spaced and unspaced scripts. Consequently, it is well suited for research on a wide range of writing systems. To date, it has been used with English, German, Thai, Korean, and Chinese. EyeMap is platform independent and can also work on mobile devices. An important contribution of the EyeMap project is a device-independent XML data format for describing data from a wide range of reading experiments. An online version of EyeMap allows researchers to analyze and visualize reading data through a standard Web browser. This facility could, for example, serve as a front-end for online eye movement data corpora.

Keywords  Eye movements – Reading – Data visualization

The latest version of EyeMap can be retrieved from sourceforge.net/projects/openeyemap/files. The online system is available at http://eyemaponline.tk.

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