3/10/2021

Outlier-Aware, Density-Based Gaze Fixation Identification

Liu, W., Trapp, A. C., & Djamasbi, S. (2021). Outlier-Aware, density-Based gaze fixation identification. Omega, volume 12, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.omega.2020.102298.

Eye tracking is an advancing technology holding significant promise to improve our understanding of human behavior and decision making. Gaze data gathered by eye trackers contain events known as fixations. Fixations indicate visual attention and awareness, and are identified by algorithms that parse eye-tracking data into a sequence of gaze point clusters. While great potential exists, eye-tracker imprecision often results in noisy gaze data, such as what arises from calibration errors, erratic eye movements, or other system noise. Noise can cause inaccurate identification of fixations in eye-tracking applications, resulting in misleading behavioral interpretations and conclusions. Therefore, fixation identification algorithms should be robust against data noise. To resolve such inaccuracies, we propose FID+: outlier-aware fixation identification via fixation inner-density.