A Cookbook for Eye Tracking in Software Engineering
Eye tracking technology offers valuable insights into how developers and users interact with software artifacts, tools, and interfaces. However, conducting empirical eye tracking research comes with a number of challenges. To assist researchers and students new to the field, this article provides a concise summary of the background as well as the key considerations. As an additional resource, we present a detailed checklist along with its application. Note that both the outline and the checklist are specifically tailored to, but not limited to, the context of software engineering research.
Authors
- Roman Bednarik (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1726-3520)
- Jonathan I. Maletic (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5289-135X)
- Naser Al Madi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4551-3080)
- Zohreh Sharafi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2681-0728)
- Bonita Sharif (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5178-7160)
- Lynsay A. Shepherd (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1082-1174)
- Hans Gruber (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0893-2027)
- Teresa Busjahn (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9835-9828)
- Kang-il Park (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-0854-5229)
- Lisa Grabinger (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1874-6268)
- Florian Häuser (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2531-3295)
- Unaizah Obaidellah (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4822-2174)
- Fabian Engl (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-3321-2989)
- Timur Ezer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-1973-9997)
- Juergen Mottok (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7727-2448)
Institutions
- University of Nebraska–Lincoln (US)
- OTH Regensburg (DE)
- HTW Berlin - University of Applied Sciences (DE)
- Kent State University (US)
- University of Eastern Finland (FI)
- Colby College (US)
- University of Malaya (MY)
- Polytechnique Montréal (CA)
- University of Regensburg (DE)
- Abertay University (GB)
Publication Details
- Published
- 2025-05-08
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1145/3723010.3723018
- Primary Topic
- Gaze Tracking and Assistive Technology
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00