ETRA 2024 Workshops

The COGAIN Association is a network of excellence that integrates cutting-edge expertise on interface technologies for the benefit of users with and without disabilities. Through the integration of research activities such as this yearly symposium, the network aims to develop new technologies and systems, improve existing gaze-based interaction techniques, and facilitate the implementation of systems for everyday use.

Organizers: Paweł Kasprowski, Augusto Esteves, Ana Pires, Pavel Manakhov

This workshop invites a confluence of researchers, practitioners, and enthusiasts from various fields, including eye tracking, human-computer interaction, psychology, and learning sciences. It's an opportunity to share innovative ideas, research breakthroughs, and practical solutions, all aimed at harnessing the full potential of eye tracking in education while conscientiously navigating its challenges. Join us in this exploratory journey to redefine the boundaries of educational technology and create a more intuitive, responsive, and effective learning environment for all.

Organizers: Tobias Appel, Quentin Meteier, Jürgen Bluhm

The study of eye gaze data has great potential for research in computer programming, computing education, and software engineering practice. The Twelfth International Workshop on Eye Movements in Programming (EMIP 2024) will again focus on advancing the methodological, theoretical, and applied aspects of eye movements in programming. The goal of the workshop is to further develop the methodology of using eye gaze tracking for programming, both theoretically and in applications. What can gaze behavior tell us about cognitive processes during programming? This question enables us to understand the role of human factors involved in programming.

Organizers: Norman Peitek, James Paterson

Broadly, this workshop considers the intersection of eye tracking research with visualization, whether the contributions relate to eye tracking studies of visualizations, or vice versa, visualization techniques for eye tracking. Technological advances in computer vision algorithms and sensor hardware have greatly reduced the implementational and financial costs of eye tracking. Thus, it is unsurprising to witness a significant increase in its use as a research tool in fields beyond the traditional domains of biological vision, psychology, and neuroscience, in particular, in visualization and human-computer interaction research. One of the key challenges lies in the analysis, interaction, and visualization of complex spatio-temporal datasets of gaze behavior, which is further complicated by complementary datasets such as semantic labels, user interactions and/or accompanying physiological sensor recordings. Ultimately, the research objective is to allow eye tracking data to be effectively interpreted in terms of the observer’s decision-making and cognitive processes. To achieve this, it is necessary to draw upon our current understanding of gaze-behavior across various and related fields, from vision and cognition to visualization. All together eye tracking is an important field to be understood, be it in the sense of data analysis and visualization, interaction, or user-based evaluation of visualization.

Organizers: Michael Burch, Kuno Kurzhals, Daniel Weiskopf

One of the purposes of the MULTIPLEYE workshop is to support the dissemination of the MultiplEYE COST Action, which aims to foster an interdisciplinary network of research groups working on collecting eye-tracking data from reading in many languages. The network currently includes more than 200 participants interested in and involved with eye-tracking-while-reading research. However, the workshop is open to all interested researchers.

Organizers: Pawel Kasprowski, Nora Hollenstein, Lena Jäger, Paul Prasse, David R. Reich

PETMEI 2024 will provide the opportunity to re-establish and expand the research community around pervasive eye tracking, define novel challenges and opportunities, and establish guidelines to inform future research in this field. The first stepping stones towards this vision were established in the first iterations of this workshop from 2011 to 2018. However, in the last five years significant advancements in camera technologies, algorithms, and display devices, have been made, which call for a new perspective on these topics. Specifically, we want to encourage these communities to think about the implications of pervasive eye tracking for context-aware computing, that is, the ability to track eye movements not only for a couple of hours inside the laboratory but continuously for days, weeks, or even months in people’s everyday life.

Organizers: Chuhan Jiao, Swati Jindal, Mihai Bâce, Andreas Bulling

This workshop specifically targets the challenges of using, gathering, and analyzing eye tracking data faced in gaming and sports. The workshop is of particular interest for researchers in game design, sports, human-computer interaction (HCI), eye tracking, data science, and visualization. We want to establish a shared venue for this diverse community to enhance the current state-of-the-art and help develop the community further.

Organizers: Günter Wallner, Michael Burch, Bastian Pfleging, Regina Bernhaupt, Michael Lankes

The focus of the fourth edition of PrEThics is explainability, which has been investigated extensively in AI research (XAI). We will leverage these considerations for eye tracking and explore whether and how privacy and ethics can be safeguarded using XAI methods. This hands-on workshop will actively engage researchers and practitioners to reflect, specify, and apply XAI methods in addressing ethical, social, legal and privacy aspects of eye tracking systems.

Organizers: Susanne Hindennach, Mayar Elfares, Céline Gressel, Murat Karaboga, Michael Raschke, Andreas Bulling