FixTag: An algorithm for identifying and tagging fixations to simplify the analysis of data collected by portable eye trackers

ACM Transactions on Applied Perception

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Munn, Susan M ^a   Pelz, Jeff B ^a  

^a ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coding; Eye tracking; Fixations; Portable; Wearable

Indexed keywords

CODING; EYE TRACKING; FIXATIONS; PORTABLE; WEARABLE;

AUTOMATION; CALIBRATION; CAMERAS; ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE; EYE CONTROLLED DEVICES; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 70349106419     PISSN: 15443558     EISSN: 15443965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1577755.1577759     Document Type: Article

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