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Stein, Isabell ; Jossberger, Helen ; Gruber, Hans

MAP3D: An explorative approach for automatic mapping of real-world eye-tracking data on a virtual 3D model

Stein, Isabell, Jossberger, Helen and Gruber, Hans (2023) MAP3D: An explorative approach for automatic mapping of real-world eye-tracking data on a virtual 3D model. Journal of Eye Movement Research 15 (3).

Date of publication of this fulltext: 06 Jun 2023 08:51
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DOI to cite this document: 10.5283/epub.54334


Abstract

Mobile eye tracking helps to investigate real-world settings, in which participants can move freely. This enhances the studies’ ecological validity but poses challenges for the analysis. Often, the 3D stimulus is reduced to a 2D image (reference view) and the fixations are manually mapped to this 2D image. This leads to a loss of information about the three-dimensionality of the stimulus. Using ...

Mobile eye tracking helps to investigate real-world settings, in which participants can move freely. This enhances the studies’ ecological validity but poses challenges for the analysis. Often, the 3D stimulus is reduced to a 2D image (reference view) and the fixations are manually mapped to this 2D image. This leads to a loss of information about the three-dimensionality of the stimulus. Using several reference images, from different perspectives, poses new problems, in particular concerning the mapping of fixations in the transition areas between two reference views. A newly developed approach (MAP3D) is presented that enables generating a 3D model and automatic mapping of fixations to this virtual 3D model of the stimulus. This avoids problems with the reduction to a 2D reference image and with transitions between images. The x, y and z coordinates of the fixations are available as a point cloud and as .csv output. First exploratory application and evaluation tests are promising: MAP3D offers innovative ways of post-hoc mapping fixation data on 3D stimuli with open-source software and thus provides cost-efficient new avenues for research.



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Item typeArticle
Journal or Publication TitleJournal of Eye Movement Research
Publisher:Bern Open Publishing
Open Access Type:Gold (with APC)
Volume:15
Number of Issue or Book Chapter:3
Date31 May 2023
InstitutionsHuman Sciences > Institut für Erziehungswissenschaften > Lehrstuhl für Pädagogik III (Prof. Dr. Hans Gruber)
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10.16910/jemr.15.3.8DOI
Keywords3D stimuli, automatic fixation mapping, eye movement, eye tracking, photogrammetry, virtual 3D model
Dewey Decimal Classification300 Social sciences > 370 Education
StatusPublished
RefereedYes, this version has been refereed
Created at the University of RegensburgYes
URN of the UB Regensburgurn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-543344
Item ID54334

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