Eye Tracking: Infants and Children
Eye tracking infants and children presents a number of challenges, but recent advances in hardware and software mean that working with young participants is no longer synonymous with frustration and data loss. This advanced workshop is aimed at EyeLink users who want to ensure that their eye tracking systems, tasks and analysis approaches are optimised for infant and child research. The workshop will cover hardware and set up issues, including optimal layout for the testing environment, using the arm-mount and desktop mounts, and using Remote Mode, as well as working with custom calibration targets.
The course will demonstrate how to program experiments for infant and child research in Experiment Builder, including detailed discussion of gaze-contingent triggers, preferential viewing tasks, accumulated looking, habituation and other common tasks. The course will also cover issues for data analysis that may arise when working with infants. Worked examples, including video stimuli, Experiment Builder scripts and Data Viewer analysis sessions will be provided.
Why study this course?
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Learn to use your EyeLink system to its full potential when working with infants and children
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Gain hands on experience of using an arm-mounted EyeLink
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Understand how to set up and calibrate infants and children optimally
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Learn how to program infant and child friendly experiments with Experiment Builder
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Learn how to deal with common analysis issues in Data Viewer
Schedule
09:00 - 09:30: Registration / Welcome
09:30 - 10:00: Introduction to working with infants and Children: We will begin with an introduction outlining the key topics that will be addressed in the workshop - the importance of optimal physical set ups, maintaining participant attention, flexible experiment programming and robust data analysis.
10:00 - 11:00: Set up and Calibration for infants and children: This will be a practical demonstration of working with both Arm and Desktop mounted EyeLink systems when testing infants and children. The session will include how to use appropriate animated calibration targets and how to choose the appropriate calibration model.
11:00 - 11:30: Tea / Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30: Infant Friendly Experiment Builder programming I: This will be a practical introduction to setting up a basic infant friendly preferential looking experiment, including how to play a choice of videos during camera set up, the use of animated calibration targets, gaze contingent trial triggering, responsive trial recycling and effective use of attention getters.
12:30 - 13:30: Lunch
13:30 - 15:00: Infant Friendly Experiment Builder programming II: This will consist of a practical demonstration of using advanced Experimental Builder functionality to program accumulated looking / habituation type tasks.
15:00 - 15:30: Tea / Coffee Break