cff-version: 1.2.0 abstract: "

Over the past decades, there have been significant developments in eye-tracking technology, particularly in the domain of mobile, head-mounted devices. Nevertheless, questions remain regarding the accuracy of these eye-trackers during static and dynamic tasks. In light of this, we evaluated the performance of two widely-used devices: Tobii Pro Glasses 2 and Tobii Pro Glasses 3. A total of 36 participants engaged in tasks under three dynamicity conditions. In the “seated with a chinrest” trial, only the eyes could be moved, in the “seated without a chinrest” trial, both the head and the eyes were free to move, and during the walking trial, participants walked along a straight path. During the seated trials, participants’ gaze was directed towards dots on a wall by means of audio instructions, whereas in the walking trial, participants maintained their gaze on a bullseye while walking towards it. Eye-tracker accuracy was determined using computer vision techniques to identify the target within the scene camera image. The findings showed that Tobii 3 outperformed Tobii 2 in terms of accuracy during the walking trials. Moreover, the results suggest that employing a chinrest in the case of head-mounted eye-trackers is counterproductive, as it necessitates larger eye eccentricities for target fixation, thereby compromising accuracy compared to not using a chinrest, which allows for head movement. Lastly, it was found that participants who reported higher workload demonstrated poorer eye-tracking accuracy. The current findings may be useful in the design of experiments that involve head-mounted eye-trackers.


" authors: - family-names: Onkhar given-names: Vishal - family-names: Dodou given-names: Dimitra orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9428-3261" - family-names: de Winter given-names: Joost orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1281-8200" title: "Supplementary data for the paper 'Evaluating the Tobii Pro Glasses 2 and 3 in static and dynamic conditions'" keywords: version: 2 identifiers: - type: doi value: 10.4121/442018c6-30eb-4439-a452-c0046726905c.v2 license: CC BY 4.0 date-released: 2024-09-02