Eyetracking Utilities

On this page you can download software that can be used to produce gazeplots on video material. The software was originally produced to be used by students taking the course Diagnose und individualle Förderung. During this course the students recorded and analysed pupils activities while performing programming tasks. Eyetracking was used to show the students, what a learner would focus on, during programming.

The software suite consists of two programs:

Gazelogger

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Requirements

To use the Gazelogger, you need to run the gazepoint API or another software that connects to the eyetracking hardware. This software has to provide a TCP-server that communicates in accordance to the Open Gaze API by Gazepoint.

Usage

The Gazelogger provides a GUI that is used to begin and end the logging process. Logs are created in the directoy from which the program has been started.

Gazeplotter

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Requirements

The Gazeplotter internally uses the program ffmpeg to transcode video files. Since it is not included in the download above, you need to obtain it elsewhere. To allow the Gazeplotter accessing it, you can either add its directory to the PATH or provide its location via an argument (see below for details).

Usage

Basic

In each case you need to provide the program with a video file and a gazelog. If these fines are names input.avi and gazelog.glog respectively, aou can start the plotting process with

java -jar GazePlotter.jar

otherwise provide the files by using the arguments -i and -g:

java -jar GazePlotter.jar -i inputfile -g gazelogfile
Advanced

You can use the following options to further configure the plotting process:

Option Parameter Default Description
-h - - Prints help text that describes usable arguments
-fp path ffmpeg Path to access ffmpeg
-i path input.avi Path to file that will be overlayed with plot
-o path algorith name Path to file that will be written as output
-g path gazelog.glog Path to file from which eyetracking data will be loaded
-sa algorithm MEAN_8 Algorithm to be used during plotting (see below)
-r rate 30 Framerate to be used as transcoding target
-ts seconds 0 Amount of seconds (decimal point allowed) to be skipped at the beginning of the input video

Available plotting algorithms (can be optained with argument -sa LIST):

Algorithm name Description
RAW Plot recorded points without preprocessing
MEAN_4 Replace raw coordinates with mean position of the last 4 points*
MEAN_8 Replace raw coordinates with mean position of the last 8 points*
MEAN_16 Replace raw coordinates with mean position of the last 16 points*

*From the described points the subset is used that contains only valid points