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[serindrana]

So, the study my friend is running (and I'm learning from) has to do with eyetracking. We've had serious issues getting the head tracker to, well, track the head. It's finicky and needs exact lighting and all sorts of things, and most days it won't work well. It's supposed to follow the head if the participant moves, but it rarely did it well, leading to a lot of start-overs. Not fun, and rather counter productive.

Finally, after nearly a month of waiting, our professor ordered and received a chin rest. Fixed ALL the problems. We don't even need the head tracker now!

:)

Still, I don't think my summer science project will use the eye tracker. I still need to run ideas by Tabitha about that, too.

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[epiic.livejournal.com]

What are you doing with eye tracking?

My primarily familiarity with it is software usability testing to see what confuses users.

[serindrana.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm just an assistant, but my friend is doing a study to see how proficiency or lack thereof in a second language (French) manifests in eye movements during reading. AKA, how do they look at words in English and how do they look at words in a second language? What words do they go back to/spend more time on? Do they skip articles/determiners? That sort of thing.