EALab (Eye Activity Lab): A MATLAB Toolbox for Variable Extraction, Multivariate Analysis and Classification of Eye-Movement Data
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Accepted version
Author(s)
Andreu-Perez, J
Solnais, C
Sriskandarajah, K
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Recent advances in the reliability of the eye-tracking methodology as well as the increasing availability of affordable non-intrusive technology have opened the door to new research opportunities in a variety of areas and applications. This has raised increasing interest within disciplines such as medicine, business and education for analysing human perceptual and psychological processes based on eye-tracking data. However, most of the currently available software requires programming skills and focuses on the analysis of a limited set of eye-movement measures (e.g., saccades and fixations), thus excluding other measures of interest to the classification of a determined state or condition. This paper describes ‘EALab’, a MATLAB toolbox aimed at easing the extraction, multivariate analysis and classification stages of eye-activity data collected from commercial and independent eye trackers. The processing implemented in this toolbox enables to evaluate variables extracted from a wide range of measures including saccades, fixations, blinks, pupil diameter and glissades. Using EALab does not require any programming and the analysis can be performed through a user-friendly graphical user interface (GUI) consisting of three processing modules: 1) eye-activity measure extraction interface, 2) variable selection and analysis interface, and 3) classification interface.
Date Issued
2015-09-10
Date Acceptance
2015-09-10
Citation
Neuroinformatics, 2015, 14 (1), pp.51-67
ISSN
1539-2791
Publisher
Springer Verlag
Start Page
51
End Page
67
Journal / Book Title
Neuroinformatics
Volume
14
Issue
1
Copyright Statement
The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12021-015-9275-4
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Neurosciences
Computer Science
Neurosciences & Neurology
Eye tracking
Machine learning
Multivariate analysis
Classification
Computer software
Neuroinformatics
FEATURE-SELECTION
PUPIL SIZE
GAUSSIAN-PROCESSES
RECOGNITION
MACHINES
NETWORKS
PATTERNS
TRACKING
SEARCH
Neurology & Neurosurgery
0601 Biochemistry And Cell Biology
1109 Neurosciences
Publication Status
Published