Linnéa Larsson
ABSTRACT
Analysis of eye movements recorded with a mobile eye-tracker is difficult since the eye-tracking data are severely affected by simultaneous head and body movements. Automatic analysis methods developed for remote-, and tower-mounted eye-trackers do not take this into account and are therefore not suitable to use for data where also head- and body movements are present. As a result, data recorded with a mobile eye-tracker are often analyzed manually. In this work, we investigate how simultaneous recordings of eye- and head movements can be employed to isolate the motion of the eye in the eye-tracking data. We recorded eye-in-head movements with a mobile eye-tracker and head movements with an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU). Preliminary results show that by compensating the eye-tracking data with the estimated head orientation, the standard deviation of the data during vestibular-ocular reflex (VOR) eye movements, was reduced from 8.0° to 0.9° in the vertical direction and from 12.9° to 0.6° in the horizontal direction. This suggests that a head compensation algorithm based on IMU data can be used to isolate the movements of the eye and therefore simplify the analysis of data recorded using a mobile eye-tracker.
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- Compensation of head movements in mobile eye-tracking data using an inertial measurement unit
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