Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Maynooth, Co.Kildare, Ireland.
Behav Res Methods. 2012 Jun;44(2):420-38. doi: 10.3758/s13428-011-0156-y.
We have developed EyeMap, a freely available software system for visualizing and analyzing eye movement data specifically in the area of reading research. As compared with similar systems, including commercial ones, EyeMap has more advanced features for text stimulus presentation, interest area extraction, eye movement data visualization, and experimental variable calculation. It is unique in supporting binocular data analysis for unicode, proportional, and nonproportional fonts and spaced and unspaced scripts. Consequently, it is well suited for research on a wide range of writing systems. To date, it has been used with English, German, Thai, Korean, and Chinese. EyeMap is platform independent and can also work on mobile devices. An important contribution of the EyeMap project is a device-independent XML data format for describing data from a wide range of reading experiments. An online version of EyeMap allows researchers to analyze and visualize reading data through a standard Web browser. This facility could, for example, serve as a front-end for online eye movement data corpora.
我们开发了 EyeMap，这是一个免费的软件系统，专门用于可视化和分析眼动数据，特别是在阅读研究领域。与包括商业系统在内的类似系统相比，EyeMap 具有更先进的文本刺激呈现、兴趣区域提取、眼动数据可视化和实验变量计算功能。它的独特之处在于支持对 unicode、比例和非比例字体以及空格和非空格脚本的双目数据分析。因此，它非常适合研究各种书写系统。迄今为止，它已被用于英语、德语、泰语、韩语和中文。EyeMap 是独立于平台的，也可以在移动设备上运行。EyeMap 项目的一个重要贡献是一种设备独立的 XML 数据格式，用于描述来自各种阅读实验的数据。EyeMap 的在线版本允许研究人员通过标准 Web 浏览器分析和可视化阅读数据。例如，该功能可以作为在线眼动数据语料库的前端。
