title: The pyeTribe: Simultaneous eyetracking for economic games.
abstract: The recent introduction of inexpensive eyetrackers has opened up a wealth of opportunities for researchers to study attention in interactive tasks. No software package has previously been available to help researchers exploit those opportunities. We created "the pyeTribe," a software package that offers, among others, the following features: first, a communication platform between many eyetrackers to allow for simultaneous recording of multiple participants; second, the simultaneous calibration of multiple eyetrackers without the experimenter's supervision; third, data collection restricted to periods of interest, thus reducing the volume of data and easing analysis. We used a standard economic game (the public goods game) to examine the data quality and demonstrate the potential of our software package. Moreover, we conducted a modeling analysis, which illustrates how combining process and behavioral data can improve models of human decision-making behavior in social situations. Our software is open source.
authors: Center for Adaptive Rationality, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, 14195, Berlin, Germany. lejarraga@mpib-berlin.mpg.de.
authors: Tomás
authors: T
authors: Lejarraga
authors: Center for Adaptive Rationality, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, 14195, Berlin, Germany.|Department of Business Administration, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
authors: Michael
authors: M
authors: Schulte-Mecklenbeck
authors: Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA.
authors: Daniel
authors: D
authors: Smedema
mesh_terms: D053483:Eye Movement Measurements; D006801:Humans; D012984:Software; D018910:Video Games / Q000523:psychology*
keywords: Attention; Eyetracking; Public goods game; Simultaneous