Here in the Institute of Neuroscience and elsewhere in Newcastle, we have several people who use various technologies to track subjects’ eye movements during experiments. The Eye-Tracking User Group exists to share expertise in this sometimes fiddly area, make it easier for researchers new to eye-tracking to get started, and to share information and experience on the various eye-tracking systems available. Members of the group (below) can send an email to all other members by using the list address eyetrack@ncl.ac.uk. Messages sent to the list will be archived at https://lists.ncl.ac.uk/wws/arc/eyetrack (only viewable by members). New members can subscribe to the list at https://lists.ncl.ac.uk/wws/info/eyetrack.
Fragments of the Matlab code I wrote to control the SMI RED50 eyetracker, shown below, are available here, not in a very helpful or well-documented state I freely admit.
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- Ignacio Serrano-Pedraza and Louise Hogg
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- Eyetracking children
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- Jenny & Graeme Phillipson
Members
- Jason Connolly
- Freya Copley-Mills
- Patrick Degenaar
- Caroline Floccia, Plymouth University
- Paul Hands
- Dave Hunter
- Domhnall Jennings
- Emma Kirkpatrick
- Richard Lilley, Tracksys
- Lucas Nunes Vieira
- Catherine O’Hanlon, Aberystwyth University
- Chris Petkov
- Jenny Read
- Debbie Riby
- Yoav Tadmor
- Quoc Vuong
Eye-tracking systems used locally
| Manufacturer | Model | Users | Species | MRI | Head-mounted | Remote-mounted | Head restrained | Binocular |
| Arrington | 220Hz, USB type | Chris Petkov | Human, NHP | X | – | X | X | X? |
| ASL | pan/tilt | Yoav Tadmor, Jenny Read | Human | – | – | X | – | – |
| ASL | mobile | Yoav Tadmor | Human | – | X | – | – | – |
| ASL | Long Range Optics Monocular | Jason Connolly, Quoc Vuong | Human | X | – | X | X | – |
| CRS | 50Hz | Yoav Tadmor, Quoc Vuong | Human | X | – | – | – | – |
| SMI | RED50 | Catherine O’Hanlon, Jenny Read | Human | – | – | X | – | X |
| SMI | semi-in-house | Dave Hunter | NHP | X | – | X | X | X? |
| SR | Eyelink 1000 | Neil Archibald | Human | X | – | X | Either | – |
Eye-tracking facilities at CARU: The Clinical Ageing Research Unit on the Campus for Ageing and Vitality, Newcastle General Hospital
CARU has:
- Dedicated room for visual assessment with blackout blinds and floor to ceiling curtains
- Visual acuity testing hardware/software of various shapes and sizes
- Slit lamp for ophthalmological examination
- SR Eyelink 1000 desktop mounted remote eye tracker for use either with a fixed chin on a headrest or free viewing situations
Contact: Neil Archibald.