title: ProtoMatch: a tool for analyzing high-density, sequential eye gaze and cursor protocols.
abstract: ProtoMatch is a software tool for integrating and analyzing fixed-location and movement eye gaze and cursor data. It provides a comprehensive collection of protocol analysis tools that support sequential data analyses for eye fixations and scanpaths as well as for cursor "fixations" (dwells at one location) and "cursorpaths" (movements between locations). ProtoMatch is modularized software that integrates both eye gaze and cursor protocols into a unified stream of data and provides an assortment of filters and analyses. ProtoMatch subsumes basic analyses (i.e., fixation duration, number of fixations, etc.) and introduces a method of objectively computing the similarity between scanpaths or cursorpaths using sequence alignment. The combination of filters, basic analyses, and sequence alignment in ProtoMatch provides researchers with a versatile system for performing both confirmatory and exploratory sequential data analyses (Sanderson & Fisher, 1994).
authors.affiliation: Cognitive Science Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, CogWorks Laboratories, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180, USA. myersc@rpi.edu
authors.forename: Christopher W
authors.initials: CW
authors.lastname: Myers
authors.forename: Michael J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Schoelles
mesh_terms: D005133:Eye Movements; D005403:Fixation, Ocular; D006801:Humans; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface