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A method to study visual attention aspects of collaboration: eye-tracking pair programmers simultaneously

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ETRA '08: Proceedings of the 2008 symposium on Eye tracking research & applications

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The previous research of visual attention has mostly considered the situations in which a single person performs a task. The current eye-tracking devices and software support this research situation. Applications of eye-tracking in the research of collaborative tasks have been rare to date. We present a methodological framework of a research in which visual attention of pair programmers with a single display has been studied. We discuss the challenges of such research when conducted in real-world settings and the requirements on the eye-tracking setups. The hardware setups and software solutions to the problems of acquisition and synchronization of streams of eye-tracking data are presented. We outline the methodological questions of future visual attention research of collaborative tasks.

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A method to study visual attention aspects of collaboration: eye-tracking pair programmers simultaneously
1. Computing methodologies
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ETRA '08: Proceedings of the 2008 symposium on Eye tracking research & applications

March 2008

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ISBN:9781595939821

DOI:10.1145/1344471

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Kari-Jouko Räihä
University of Tampere, Finland
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Clemson University, USA

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