title: ELIA: a software application for integrating spoken language and eye movements.
abstract: We have developed a new software application, Eye-gaze Language Integration Analysis (ELIA), which allows for the rapid integration of gaze data with spoken language input (either live or prerecorded). Specifically, ELIA integrates E-Prime output and/or .csv files that include eye-gaze and real-time language information. The process of combining eye movements with real-time speech often involves multiple error-prone steps (e.g., cleaning, transposing, graphing) before a simple time course analysis plot can be viewed or before data can be imported into a statistical package. Some of the advantages of this freely available software include (1) reducing the amount of time spent preparing raw eye-tracking data for analysis; (2) allowing for the quick analysis of pilot data in order to identify issues with experimental design; (3) facilitating the separation of trial types, which allows for the examination of supplementary effects (e.g., order or gender effects); and (4) producing standard output files (i.e., .csv files) that can be read by numerous spreadsheet packages and transferred to any statistical software.
authors.affiliation: University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.
authors.forename: Jared M J
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Berman
authors.forename: Melanie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Khu
authors.forename: Ian
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Graham
authors.forename: Susan A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Graham
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology; D005133:Eye Movements / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D012984:Software; D012985:Software Design; D014584:User-Computer Interface