title: What Am I Looking at? Interpreting Dynamic and Static Gaze Displays.
abstract: Displays of eye movements may convey information about cognitive processes but require interpretation. We investigated whether participants were able to interpret displays of their own or others' eye movements. In Experiments 1 and 2, participants observed an image under three different viewing instructions. Then they were shown static or dynamic gaze displays and had to judge whether it was their own or someone else's eye movements and what instruction was reflected. Participants were capable of recognizing the instruction reflected in their own and someone else's gaze display. Instruction recognition was better for dynamic displays, and only this condition yielded above chance performance in recognizing the display as one's own or another person's (Experiments 1 and 2). Experiment 3 revealed that order information in the gaze displays facilitated instruction recognition when transitions between fixated regions distinguish one viewing instruction from another. Implications of these findings are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Education, Utrecht University.|Institute of Psychology, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
authors.forename: Margot
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: van Wermeskerken
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Edge Hill University.
authors.forename: Damien
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Litchfield
authors.affiliation: Department of Education, Utrecht University.|Institute of Psychology, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
authors.forename: Tamara
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: van Gog
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005133:Eye Movements; D005260:Female; D005403:Fixation, Ocular / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D010775:Photic Stimulation / Q000379:methods*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Eye movements; Eye tracking; Gaze display; Gaze interpretation; Gaze recognition