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Workshop

Tobii user workshop at Leiden University

Utilizing eye tracking in psychological studies

  • Mar 23, 2023
  • Leiden University, Living Lab 1B01, Wassenaarseweg 52 in Leiden

Event details

  • Mar 23, 2023

  • Leiden University, Living Lab 1B01, Wassenaarseweg 52 in Leiden

    Hybrid

  • English

  • Time

    09:00-16:00

  • First floor of the Pieter de la Court building, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences

  • Free

Save your spot today as space is limited for the onsite event.

By understanding attention, researchers expand their knowledge of a whole range of human behaviors. Eye tracking unlocks hidden insights about visual attention, cognitive processes, and reactions by capturing and measuring minute eye movements and gestures. Whether used for psychology, neurology, or human-computer interaction, eye tracking enables a firmer grasp on what it means to be human.

Event details

Alongside Leiden University, Tobii is organizing a learning event, including a hands-on workshop where you’ll find out how eye tracking can be used to take your research further.

During the day, we’ll have inspiring presentations by researchers from Leiden University, focusing on psychological studies on various subjects, from infants to great apes. In the afternoon, you’ll have the chance to attend a workshop hosted by an eye tracking expert, focusing on data analysis in our software, Tobii Pro Lab. The Tobii Pro Lab product manager, Carsten Gondorf, will also join virtually to answer your specific questions.

We’re looking forward to seeing you there!

The presentations

From dangerous painters to safe cars

Speaker: Francesco Walker

I have always been interested in ways of applying scientific methods to real-life problems while maintaining ecological validity. So far, this has taken me in two directions. The two subject areas I study appear to be very different. However, they share a common theme: user experience and how to measure it. At the start of my career, I studied how children and adults perceive art in a museum setting. The goal of The Van Gogh Museum Eye-tracking Project was to determine the role of top-down and bottom-up attentional processes in the first stages of participants’ aesthetic experience. I applied similar techniques during my PhD, investigating a completely different world: self-driving cars. This is an area where the primary focus has been on technology rather than on addressing Human Factors challenges. I will share results on drivers’ trust and pedestrians’ gaze behaviour. Lastly, I will present a new exciting collaboration with the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, through which we aim at bringing children closer to the museum world. Art perception and automated vehicles are topics that interest me not only on a professional, but also on a more personal level. In my talk I will bring together findings from these two – seemingly – distant worlds.

The role of visual attention on public managers’ problem-definition and solution-generating search: An eye-tracking experiment

Speakers: Joris van der Voet and Amandine Lerusse

In the wake of developments such as evidence-based policy-making, performance management, and big data, public sector decision-makers possess historically unrivalled information on societal problems, their origins, and potential solutions. Paradoxically, this abundance of information leads to an ever-increasing scarcity of attention, as the available information greatly exceeds decision-makers’ information-processing capacities. Attention is the sine qua non of decision-making: What is attended to can be addressed in policy responses; what is overlooked or goes unnoticed cannot. Building on this observation, this study examines how public managers process information, via their visual attention, about problems (problem-definition search) and solutions (solution-generating search).

Action anticipation based on mental state attribution in toddlers and adults

Speakers: Szilvia Biro, Giulia Vigna and Heleen Lange

This study investigates spontaneous Theory of Mind (ToM) in toddlers. ToM is the capacity to attribute subjective mental states (e.g., beliefs, intentions, or knowledge) to ourselves and others. Anticipatory looking (AL) studies have shown that ToM is already present in children around the age of two. However, a growing body of research failed to replicate this finding, challenging the methodological suitability of AL. Therefore, multiple research-labs around the world (ManyBabies 2) are now collaboratively investigating (1) the robustness of spontaneous ToM measures, and (2) whether toddlers and adults take an agent’s epistemic status (knowledge vs. ignorance) into account in their spontaneous goal-based action anticipation. Additionally, Leiden BabyLab is focusing on methodological questions regarding anticipatory looking measures in toddlers (N = 16) and adults (N = 16), as assessed with the Tobii eye-tracker (e.g., timeframe, size of area of interest, and fixation filters).

Attentional bias towards flanged males in Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus)

Speaker: Tom S. Roth

Using the Tobii Pro Spectrum ape module, he showed that orangutans pay more attention to flanged, compared to unflanged individuals. This helps corroborate longstanding suspicions that flanges, together with throat sacs and greater body size, are visual displays that may drive mate preference. During his presentation, Tom will also talk about some of the challenges working with nonhuman primates.

Capturing how experts teach visual problem solving

Speaker: Christine van Nooijen

Plenty of eye-tracking research has highlighted the differences in gaze behaviour of experts and novices, in domains from air traffic control to medical diagnosis. However, little is known about how this visual expertise is taught to novice learners. During this talk, Christine will share how wearable eye-tracking can help us understand how experts teach novices, and describe her ongoing data collection using this design.

How infants use their parent’s nonverbal behavior to anticipate turns in conversation

Speaker: Niilo Valtakari

Before children learn to speak, they already follow turns in conversation. Previous research has mainly employed prerecorded conversations between strangers. However, the conversations infants observe on a daily basis typically involve their parent(s) in some way. We investigated what visual information in the nonverbal behavior of the parent might influence infants’ abilities to predict and follow turns in a live conversation. 41 parent-infant (aged 6-18 months) dyads interacted in a live dual eye-tracking setup, with parents performing a staged conversation between two hand puppets under two conditions: (1) while always looking at the speaking puppet and (2) while always looking at their child. We find that infants follow turns in general, but that the magnitude is modulated by the parent's nonverbal behavior. Moreover, infants shift their gaze in response to a turn change earlier in time when parents look at the puppet that is about to speak. Finally, we observe that turn following and prediction gets better with age.

Agenda

  • 09:00-09:15

    Welcome and introduction of Tobii

  • 09:15-09:45

    The role of visual attention on public managers’ problem-definition and solution generating search: An eye-tracking experiment

  • 09:45-10:15

    From dangerous painters to safe cars

  • 10:15-10:30

    Coffee break

  • 10:30-11:00

    Action anticipation based on mental state attribution in toddlers and adults

  • 11:00-11:30

    Attentional bias towards flanged males in Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus)

  • 11:30-12:00

    Capturing how experts teach visual problem solving

  • 12.00-13:00

    Lunch break

  • 13:00-13:30

    How infants use their parent’s nonverbal behavior to anticipate turns in conversation

  • 13:30-16:00

    Eye tracking workshop | Zsofia Pilz, Carsten Gondorf and Kirill Novikov

Event details

  • Mar 23, 2023

  • Leiden University, Living Lab 1B01, Wassenaarseweg 52 in Leiden

    Hybrid

  • English

  • Time

    09:00-16:00

  • First floor of the Pieter de la Court building, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences

  • Free

    Event type

    • Workshop

    Tagged solutions

    • Psychology and neuroscience

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