Knowing where and when to look is crucial for the execution of a skilled motor action. Our eye tracking solutions capture gaze behavior data that can be used for developing improved training programs, assessment methods, and injury prevention strategies.
When examining sports performance, there is a difference between looking and seeing. Training athletes to see the most relevant aspects of the target can enhance their trajectory estimation, visual search, and decision-making skills. These perceptual-cognitive processes are now accessible for objective evaluation with eye tracking technology.
We provide solutions for examining sports performance — whether you are conducting a study in a football field, ski run, or a lab. Our solutions deliver robust data, enable freedom of movement, and are easy to use.
Elite athletes, judges, and coaches demonstrate superior visual search strategies compared to novices in many sports and disciplines, including ice hockey, football, and karate. Use eye tracking to study how life-long training influences one’s ability to read the game and use this knowledge to shortcut the learning curve from novice to expert.
Efficient visual-motor coordination is crucial for high athletic performance in sports like rock climbing, tennis, and darts. Tobii eye trackers are compatible with many motion capture solutions, for example, Qualisys. The combination of eye tracking and motion capture will help you gather insights about athletes’ hand-eye coordination into improved training strategies.
Tobii Pro Glasses 3 combined with our analysis software Tobii Pro Lab are all you need to you to run sports performance studies and acquire quantitative data underlying visual behavior, including:
Attention
Focus
Perception
Visual search strategy
Decision making
Tobii Pro Glasses 3 wearable eye tracker allows complete freedom of movement, which is crucial when studying athletic performance. The lightweight design of the glasses, coupled with a wireless connection, allows participants to perform their sport as usual.
For lab environments, our screen-based eye trackers, Tobii Pro Fusion and Tobii Pro Spark, can be combined with Tobii Pro Lab to study athletes’ perceptual-cognitive processes.
In the field, you can connect the plug-and-play Tobii Pro Spark eye tracker to a screen in, say football Video Operation Rooms (VOR), or any other location where study participants are readily available. Works together with Tobii Pro Lab to gather insights on gaze behavior.
Dr. Adam Kiefer highlights the importance of physiological, emotional and perceptual-cognitive behavior in elite sports performance training.
Learn moreHow to use wearable eye tracking to research sports performance and other applications that include safety helmets or other kinds of protective gear.
Learn moreMichael Schoenes shares the details of a trial carried out on live Bundesliga matches and how our technology helps to reveal the decision-making processes of football VARs.
Learn moreQuiet eye is being introduced in athlete training in a range of sports to peak performance through improved concentration and reduced stress.
Learn moreTechnology continues to narrow the margins between winning and losing. Eye tracking allows coaches and trainers to see what their players see.
Learn moreUnder the name Vision in Motion (VIM), several researchers from different areas of sports science combined their existing research constructs to study perceptual-cognitive expertise in surfing using both eye tracking and motion analysis technology.
Learn moreWearable eye tracking is a fantastic tool to dig into the cognitive processes that occur when out on the ice, hitting a ball, or judging a performance.
Learn moreDesigned for the real world, our third-generation wearable eye tracker allows you to conduct behavioral research in a wide range of settings.
Learn moreA powerful screen-based eye tracker, capturing gaze data at 60 Hz. With this affordable system, anyone can easily enhance their research with data that illuminates human attention and intent.
Learn moreTobii Pro Lab, our eye tracking software supporting screen-based and wearable eye trackers. Guides the researcher through the entire research workflow.
Learn moreScreen-based eye tracker, capturing gaze data at speeds up to 250 Hz. This powerful research system supports from fixation to saccade-based research outside of the lab.
Learn moreIn this study, Hacques and colleagues (2022) investigated the effect of different training schedules (constant vs. variable) on gaze behavior during indoor climbing. They used Tobii Pro Glasses to record gaze patterns toward the handholds and hand movements of the participants. The results showed that the constant training group used more online gaze control than the variable training group, which relied more on proactive gaze control during climbing.
Chikha and colleagues (2022) used Tobii Pro Glasses to explore basketball players’ visual attention while learning the game system in the absence vs. the presence of coaches’ pointing gestures. They found that the coach’s pointing gestures improved novice players’ performance, but the effect disappeared in expert participants, indicating an expertise reversal effect.
Aksum and colleagues (2021) examined the scanning behavior of four elite football midfield players in an 11 vs. 11 real-game environment using Tobii Pro Glasses. The results revealed that the ball context influenced the player’s scanning duration: a longer scanning duration was observed when the ball was in the air compared to the pitch or when the ball was passed between two players rather than when one player had the ball. The results suggest that the elite players focus on the information, which could allow better anticipation of the ball’s position and direction.
We offer tailored support to address research needs throughout your journey with our eye tracking solutions.
Help you improve your grant proposals for research that includes eye tracking in its methodology
Product documentation, how-to guides, FAQs, and access to software updates. Our customer care services help with any technical issues with our products.
Our online learning platform helping you ensure study success at every step of the way, from study design to interpreting your eye tracking data.
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