Megan Petroccia and John Mahalchak are hard at work in the lab making great progress with the eyetracker--thanks to a wonderful group of volunteers who are letting us practice tracking, running stimuli, and recording data.
We were quite excited today after collecting a great sample from a volunteer who was viewing a picture from an old children's book, The Woodland Folk in Fairyland. You can see the interesting trace of the participant's eye up the ladder, with the blue dots indicating where the eye fixated (stopped) to take in information from the picture.
We hope to have several students trained on the eyetracker by the beginning of the fall semester and to collect data for a simple visual cognition study. If you'd like to hear more about our progress, please join us for the first Cognitive Group meeting of the fall on Friday, September 5th from noon to 1:00 in Carnegie 101. Megan & John will share their summer research with us and will discuss some of our ideas for the first eyetracking study.