Top Ten Eye Tracking Blogs

by The Acagamic

Background Information

When going on the prowl for a new arti­cle, the young aca­d­e­mic researcher, who is not too famil­iar with all the big names, research venues and jour­nals typ­i­cally starts their research look­ing the desired topic up in books, wikipedia (or other dic­tio­nar­ies) and most recently also in blogs (which hap­pen to be increas­ingly writ­ten by aca­d­e­mics in their spare time). Since I started adapt­ing that prac­tice a while ago for fields in which I lack pro­fi­ciency, I thought why not share this idea. As an aca­d­e­mic, you usu­ally often want to give back to the com­mu­nity that nur­tures you. Therefore, I would like to present my top ten of blogs that deal with eye track­ing (often in a research con­text). It has to be noted that such a list is always highly sub­jec­tive and may only be to my own gusto. If your blog is not on that list and you feel it should be, feel free to leave your URL and a com­ment. Without fur­ther ado, here goes my per­sonal top ten:

The Top Ten List

  1. Martin Tall on Gaze Interaction. Martin is a PhD stu­dent in HCI at the IT University of Copenhagen in Denmark and blogs about all things related to eye track­ing and gaze inter­ac­tion. Very inspir­ing and personal.
  2. COGAIN. This is not so much a blog as more of news site from the Communication by gaze inter­ac­tion researchers. This is where you find rel­e­vant con­fer­ences and arti­cles on gaze inter­ac­tion. Good start­ing place for researchers.
  3. Eyetracking. Set your strat­egy. Unfortunately, this Chilean blog from Research AyerViernes is in Spanish, how­ever you can let Google trans­late it for you auto­mat­i­cally. Especially inter­est­ing to industry.
  4. Eye track­ing for behav­ioral analy­sis. A French com­pany blog from Pertech (which you can also trans­late to English) shares funny arti­cles and news from the world of eye tracking.
  5. This ain’t no game! Samuel Almeida, who recently con­tacted me about my game usabil­ity slides, blogs about his the­sis project “Eye move­ment analy­sis for aug­ment­ing video game devel­op­ment”, which is delight­ful and inter­est­ing. Good luck on your project, Samuel.
  6. Eye Tools Blog. This is a blog about “design and con­tent opti­miza­tion through eye track­ing” from the eye tools com­pany, which has not been updated for a while.
  7. The Eye Tracking Blog. Lots of short, incom­plete infor­ma­tion related to eye track­ing. Older arti­cles some­times pro­vide no ref­er­ences to the news sto­ries. Unfortunately, the blog has a very anony­mous feel to it as no authors are ref­er­enced, it almost feels like it is writ­ten by a search spi­der that reg­u­larly crawls google for eye track­ing stuff.
  8. Yellow Line. Matteo Penzo, who worked with eye track­ing at the University of Rome before 2007, still has a few pieces of his work on his blog.
  9. User Interface Engineering. Again, not really a blog, but a com­pany site that has a few arti­cles related to eye track­ing.
  10. Feng GUI. A blog about a crazy tech­nol­ogy to gen­er­ate eye track­ing heatmaps with­out eye track­ing. Amazing, geeky and interesting.

Let’s not for­get that you can always come back here and read my arti­cles about eye track­ing.

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