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.