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GazeGenie: Enhancing Multi-Line Reading Research with an Innovative User-Friendly Tool
Thomas M. Mercier, Marcin Budka, Bernhard Angele, Martin R. Vasilev, Timothy J. Slattery, Julie A Kirkby
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In the study of reading, eye-tracking technology offers unique insights into the time-course of how individuals extract information from text. A significant hurdle in using multi-line paragraph stimuli is the need to align eye gaze position with the correct line. This is made more difficult by positional noise in the eye-tracking data, primarily due to vertical drift, and often necessitates manual intervention. Such manual correction is labor-intensive, subjective, and limits the scalability of research efforts. As a result, automated solutions are desirable, especially those that do not require extensive technical skills and still allow close control over the outcome. To address this, we introduce GazeGenie: a comprehensive software solution designed specifically for researchers in eye-tracking studies on multi-line reading. Accessible via an intuitive web browser-based user interface and easily installed using Docker, GazeGenie streamlines the entire data processing pipeline from parsing fixations from raw data to calculation of word and sentence-based measures based on cleaned and drift-corrected fixations. The software's core features include the recently introduced Dual Input Stream Transformer (DIST) model and various classical algorithms all of which can be combined within a Wisdom of the Crowds (WOC) approach to enhance accuracy in fixation line-assignment. By providing an all-in-one solution for researchers, we hope to make automated fixation alignment more accessible, reducing researchers' reliance on manual intervention in vertical fixation alignment. This should lead to more accurate, efficient, and reproducible analyses of multi-line eye-movement data and pave the way to enabling larger scale studies to be carried out.
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