Automatic object identification and analysis of eye movement recordings

The use of eye movement recording can be helpful in the design and evaluation of workplaces, products and many other research topics. As long as only parameters related to the movements of the eyes within the head of the subject (e.g. saccades and fixations) are to be used, an automatic evaluation seems to be the standard procedure. However, often these data should be related to the objects the subject interacts with. An identification of the objects is hindered by severe drawbacks: Either the head of the subject must be fixed or a manual analysis of the eye movement recordings is necessary (requiring roughly 30 to 60 times the acquisition duration).