“iComp: a tool for scanpath visualization and comparison” by Heminghous and Duchowski

  • ©John Heminghous and Andrew T. Duchowski

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    iComp: a tool for scanpath visualization and comparison

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    To evaluate differences across viewers’ visual attentional patterns, scanpath comparison has recently gained popularity in eye tracking studies, supplementing traditional objective (performance) and subjective measures (e.g., heat maps or [retrospective] talk-aloud). We introduce iComp, an open-source visualization tool that implements quantitative scanpath comparison in loci and sequence. iComp can be used to objectively compare the attentional qualities of synthetic images.

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    3. West, J. M., Haake, A. R., Rozanski, E. P., and Karn, K. S. 2006. eyePatterns: Software for Identifying Patterns and Similarities Across Fixation Sequences. In Eye Tracking Research & Applications (ETRA) Symposium. ACM, San Diego, CA, 149–154.


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