Pérez-Edgar Koraly, MacNeill Leigha A, Fu Xiaoxue
Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.
Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Curr Dir Psychol Sci. 2020 Jun;29(3):286-292. doi: 10.1177/0963721420915880. Epub 2020 Apr 21.
Researchers are acutely interested in how people engage in social interactions and navigate their environment. However, in striving for experimental or laboratory control, we often instead present individuals with representations of social and environmental constructs and infer how they would behave in more dynamic and contingent interactions. Mobile eye-tracking (MET) is one approach to connecting the laboratory to the experienced environment. MET superimposes gaze patterns captured through head or eye-glass mounted cameras pointed at the eyes onto a separate camera that captures the visual field. As a result, MET allows researchers to examine the world from the point of view of the individual in action. This review touches on the methods and questions that can be asked with this approach, illustrating how MET can provide new insight into social, behavioral, and cognitive processes from infancy through old age.
研究人员对人们如何进行社交互动以及在环境中导航极为感兴趣。然而，为了实现实验或实验室控制，我们常常反而向个体呈现社会和环境结构的表征，并推断他们在更具动态性和偶然性的互动中会如何表现。移动眼动追踪（MET）是一种将实验室与实际体验环境相连接的方法。MET通过安装在头部或眼镜上并对准眼睛的摄像头捕捉到的注视模式，叠加到另一个捕捉视野的摄像头上。因此，MET使研究人员能够从行动中的个体的视角审视世界。本综述涉及可以用这种方法提出的方法和问题，阐明了MET如何能够为从婴儿期到老年期的社会、行为和认知过程提供新的见解。
