Tobii Pro Lab

We added video containers to the ASP project type, enabling you to show video stimuli independently or alongside other stimuli. Just like image and audio stimuli, videos can be inputted from the design table, and you can control the position and size from the design table. Videos can even be looped as needed.

What’s more, we’ve improved the flexibility of the ASP when advancing from one stimulus to the next. This includes:

• Random time within a specific interval

• Specific key presses

• Mouse clicks (anywhere on the screen or on a specific trigger zone)

• Uninterrupted gaze in a trigger zone for a specific threshold

• Several gaze durations in a trigger zone adding up to a specific threshold.

It’s now possible to bind AOI tags to columns in the design table, allowing flexible AOI tags for features that change with each trial (e.g. target location in a visual search task).These table bound AOI tags work with image and video containers, can be combined with static AOI tags assigned to a specific container, and can be aggregated for further analysis.

Other updates

• The ASP project type can now also add participant cameras and microphones as sensors. This works well with the audio track visualizations!

• Replay shows tracks for the audio recording and the participant audio (including glasses recordings) as well as gaze recordings. This speeds up the process of participant feedback.

• The update provides an important security fix and is recommended to all users. Visit Tobii Connect for more information.

• Efforts are underway to reintegrate previous visualization functionality. Users in need of it are advised to stay on version 1.207 and apply the security update mentioned above.

The Advanced Screen is a new project type (ASP) that simplifies the design and execution of more complex screen-based eye tracking studies.

Plan your experiment's trials and stimulus combinations in a spreadsheet and upload it to Tobii Pro Lab. The ASP will take the content of your spreadsheet as input. The workflow of the experiment is constructed in the Experiment structure. Here you can set up a template for presenting your stimuli using files that have been uploaded to the Media library. The image files that comprise a stimulus can be utilized as areas of interest when analyzing eye-tracking data.

The streamlined workflow enables you to easily create multi-image stimuli, simultaneously present audio and image stimuli, randomize trials, and control complex experimental designs without the need for manually building those stimuli.

Most importantly, it will save you valuable time that you can spend on data analysis and research instead.

Other updates

• Dynamic Visualizations: the Visualizations Tab now includes dynamic visualizations. This allows you to display heat maps, bee swarms, and scan paths dynamically moving across a stimulus. You can either select a momentous gaze, accumulate data over a certain time frame, or view a sliding time window. This function can be useful to get qualitative insights into your eye tracking data such as during the piloting phase. Static stimuli like images, in addition to videos, are supported.

• Create Project Update: the Create Project page has become more helpful, with information about the different project types and their capabilities.

• Event Search Bar: it is now possible to precisely search events by timestamp, event type, and name.

Read the full release notes for more details.