Published October 5, 2015 | Version v0.1
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Saccades: An R package for detecting fixations in raw eye tracking data

Creators

  • 1. UC San Diego

Description

An R package for detecting fixations in raw eye tracking data. Includes interactive visualizations that can be used to inspect the results.  The algorithm used for the detection is based on velocity and works best with data from eye trackers with sampling rates above 120 Hz. Please check the Github repository for the latest version.

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Related works

Cites
10.1016/S0042-6989(03)00084-1 (DOI)
Is supplement to
https://github.com/tmalsburg/saccades/tree/v0.1 (URL)

References

  • Engbert, R., & Kliegl, R. (2003). Microsaccades uncover the orientation of covert attention. Vision Research, 43(9), 1035–1045.