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ECVP 2013: Call for Symposia
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Dr. Wegener just posted the call for Symposia for ECVP:

ECVP 2013: Call for Symposia 

The 36th European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP) will take 
place in Bremen, Germany, from August 25th to August 29th 2013.

ECVP features a number of user-organized symposia that provide a
broad, but coherent overview about the state-of-the-art of a given
topic. We highly encourage submissions of symposium proposals until 
December 31st 2012. We particularly also like to motivate young
investigators to take the chance of organizing a symposium at this 
particularly pleasant and important conference.

Symposia will have a total length of 2 hours. Individual talks should 
relate to each other and should be suited to also provoke discussion, 
but number and length of individual talks may be freely chosen. 
Symposia should be introduced by the organizer or another selected 
speaker to motivate both the general framework of the topic and the 
symposium's outline to the audience, and ideally should have a 
summary or prepared discussion at the end. Symposia are particularly 
beneficial if they aim at a diversity of ideas and people and should 
not restrict on single groups or 'schools'.

To keep registration fees at a reasonable and low level, there is
traditionally no extra financial support for symposia. Speakers are 
expected to register as normal participants to the conference. 

If you submit a proposal, please mail to
<mailto:symp2013@ecvp.uni-bremen.de> symp2013@ecvp.uni-bremen.de and
include:

1. Organizer's address with affiliation, email and phone number.
2. The title of the proposed symposium and (not more than) one page
   that should clearly state the motivation, the aim and recurrent 
   theme of the symposium. 
3. List of speakers and the topic of contribution, and mention of
   whether they were contacted, have accepted, etc.

All proposals will be reviewed by the program committee. Notification 
of symposium acceptance will be sent by January. You can find 
additional information at http://www.ecvp.uni-bremen.de/

In case of acceptance we will need:

- Summary of symposium (200 words) for use in printed material.
- List of agreed speakers, affiliations, email and mailing
  addresses.
- Temporal structure of the symposium with exact sequence of talks.
  Include time for discussion and questions.
- Abstracts of individual talks (each 200 words)
- Special requests (audio-video, etc.)

Best regards and awaiting many interesting proposals,

ECVP 2013 team,

Udo Ernst | Cathleen Grimsen | Detlef Wegener | Agnes Janssen

Dr. Detlef Wegener
Brain Research Institute
Center for Cognitive Science
University of Bremen
Fon: +49-421-218 63007
Fax: +49-421-218 63012

17th European Conference on Eye Movements (ECEM) 2013 – Call is out
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The organizing committee of the ECEM 2013 just posted the following call for abstracts:

17th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON EYE MOVEMENTS

11-16 August 2013 Lund, Sweden

We are very pleased to publish this call for abstracts for ECEM 2013,
which promises a number of innovations alongside the continuing high
scientific standards of the worlds largest conference on eye movement
research. ECEM 2013 is the 17th European Conference on Eye Movements,
with the original aims of the very first ECEM, /’to exchange information
on current research, equipment and software’/, at the forefront. In
2013, it is held in Lund, Sweden, organized by the eye-tracking group at
Lund Humanities Laboratory <http://www.humlab.lu.se/en/>together with
COGAIN <http://www.cogain.org/>, the non-profit association for
communication through gaze based interaction. ECEM 2013 is the first
conference organized under the auspices of the Eye Movement Researchers
Association (EMRA), a recently formed not-for-profit organization
facilitating shared tools for conference organization and management,
shared publications such as the Journal of Eye Movement Research (JEMR)
and shared tools for eye movement research and analysis. We look forward
to welcoming you to Lund in 2013.

/The ECEM 2013 Organising Committee/

  • Conference: *11th to 16th August 2013

Organising committee

Conference Chairs: *Kenneth Holmqvist* and *Arantxa Villanueva*
Conference Organiser: *Fiona Mulvey*
Scientific Board: *Halszka Jarodzka, Ignace Hooge, Rudolf Groner, Ulrich
**Ansorge*and *Päivi Majaranta*
Exhibition Chairs: *John Paulin Hansen* and *Richard Andersson*
Method Workshop Organisers: *Marcus Nyström* and *Dan Witzner Hansen.*
Web Masters: *Nils Holmberg* and *Detlev Droege*
Proceedings Editors: *Roger Johansson* and *Richard Dewhurst*
Registration Managers: *Kerstin Gidlöf* and *Linnéa Larsson*
Student Volunteer Managers: *Linnéa Larsson, Richard Dewhurst* and
*Kerstin Gidlöf*
Social Program Organisers: *Richard Andersson, Jana Holsanova* and
*Kerstin Gidlöf*

Important dates

  • Jan 15^th 2013*: Deadline for proposals for symposia.
  • Feb 25^th 2013*: Notification on acceptance for symposia
  • March 1^st 2013*: Deadline for 2 page abstracts for talks and 200 wordabstracts for posters.
  • April 15^th 2013*: Notification on acceptance for talks and posters.

Invited speakers

  • Daniel Richardson ?Alistair Gale ?Susanna Martinez-Conde
  • Kari-Jouko Räihä ?Alan Kingstone ?Carlos Morimoto
  • Simon Liversedge ?Douglas Munoz ?Thomas Haslwanter

Location

ECEM 2013 will be held at Lund University, Sweden (for more info, see
here <http://www.lunduniversity.lu.se>). This medieval town was founded
circa 990 and Lund University is the second oldest University in Sweden.
The times higher education world university rankings for 2011-2012 place
Lund University in the top 100 list in the world. It is placed 45th in
the world for Life Sciences and 80th in the world overall;

/”Humour, innovation and a humanist perspective join critical thinking
and a concern for the environment as core values for some 46,000
students and 6,200 staff at Lund. It was founded in
1666 and is now one of the largest Nordic educational and research
institutions.”
The Times Higher Education Report 2012/

Lund is a quaint academic town with around 111 000 inhabitants, and
roughly a third of the population are students or employees at Lund
University. The close proximity to Copenhagen Airport makes this an
ideal venue for international conferences. All conference activities
including the scientific, exhibition and social programme, will take
place in the historic student union castle (shown left), located in
Lundagård, at the heart of campus and the town. For details of
*accommodation* and special rates for delegates, see here
<http://ecem2013.eye-movements.org/registration/accommodation>.

New to ECEM in 2013

We aim to have four *panel discussions*during the conference. When
online registration opens, you will be asked to vote for topics. If you
have a topic relevant for a broad spectrum of eye movement researchers
which you would like to see discussed by a panel of experts, please
forward your ideas to ECEM management here
<mailto:management@ecem2013.eye-movements.org>. We will also include
*student competitions* for best talk, best poster, and best *student
software applications* using eye movements. *Prizes* for student
contributions include a commercial eye tracker, awarded for best new
application of eye movement data.

 

Information for Symposia

Each *symposium*will be comprised of four to six talks of 20 min each
(15 min + 5 min discussion). We strongly recommend that the final slot
be used as a summary discussion. Symposia should relate to the study of
eye movements and eye tracking from a psychological, neurobiological,
clinical, computational or applied perspective. Each symposium should
provide a large view of one relevant topic and should provoke
discussion, representing alternative theoretical views or alternative
approaches rather than a single school. A Symposium submission consists
of a 200-word proposal stating how the individual talks are related and
clarifying the benefit of a joint presentation. Symposia chairs ensure
that each first author submits her/his proposal through the review
system for talks, with 2-page extended abstract (see information on
submitting talks below). In the case that one of the suggested
presentations of a symposium fails to pass the review process or is
offered as a poster presentation, the scientific panel may suggest an
alternative presentation from the pool of accepted talks. Submit your
symposium proposal *here*
<http://ecem2013.eye-movements.org/submissions>**after November 1^st ,
2012. We will acknowledge receipt of your submission within 48 hours.
Notification of symposium acceptance will be sent by the end of February.

Information for Talks

Each *talk*will be 20 min (15 min + 5 min discussion). *Talks*should
present high quality, original empirical research either completed or
work in progress. Any work related to the study of eye movements and eye
tracking from a psychological, neurobiological, clinical, computational
or applied perspective can be submitted as an oral presentation.
Extended abstracts of 2 pages, including a 200 word abstract, a method,
results/preliminary results and conclusions section and a maximum of one
figure and one table per extended 2-page abstract. You can download
templates in MS word, LaTeX, and open office formats *here*
<http://ecem2013.eye-movements.org/submissions>. All submissions will be
peer reviewed. We cannot guarantee that we will respect the authors’
preferences for oral or poster presentation. Depending on the number of
submissions we receive, some talks may be offered as poster
presentations. Notification of abstract acceptance for talks will be
sent April 15. Submit your extended abstract *here*
<http://ecem2013.eye-movements.org/submissions>after November 1^st ,
2012. We will acknowledge receipt of your submission within 48 hours.
Notification of talk acceptance will be sent by April 15^th .

Information for Poster Presentations

*Posters***may present research in progress or in preparation.
Submission for *posters* will be 200 word abstracts, that will be peer
reviewed and a decision for acceptance or rejection will be sent by
April 15. Submit your poster abstract *here*
<http://ecem2013.eye-movements.org/submissions>after Nov 1st, 2012.

Review Policy

Please note that we will allow each conference participant to be *first
author on* *one talk only*, but each participant can submit as co-author
on as many oral presentations as he/she wishes, and as first author on
as many posters as he/she wishes. First authors should be present during
the conference and present their own work. Co-authors are not required
to be present. The review panel is drawn from across a broad range of
relevant expertise. Author- and reviewer-supplied keywords will
facilitate the review-assignment process. The members of the scientific
panel will oversee all review procedures and make the final decision on
acceptance. All symposium papers will go through the same peer review
process as other talks. Accepted talks are given the option to submit
full papers in the Journal of Eye Movement Research, if they wish. For
details on all these issues, see http://ecem2013.eye-movements.org/.

1st International Mobile Gaze-Based Interaction Challenge (MobiGaze 2013)
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I would like to invite you to join the growing community of researchers
discussing and defining tasks, benchmarks and data sets for the upcoming

1st International Mobile Gaze-Based Interaction Challenge (MobiGaze 2013)

http://challenge.petmei.org

What is MobiGaze?

Mobile gaze-based interaction has gained increased interest in recent years with the advent of mobile eye tracking equipment and an increase in portable processing power. The eyes can now be used as an interaction modality in mobile settings, either on their own or complementing other modalities, such as speech or gestures.

Mobile gaze-based interaction requires an interdisciplinary effort, combining the strengths of fields such as computer vision, human-computer-interaction, pervasive computing, as well as psychology and psycholinguistics – just to name a few.

With the MobiGaze challenge, we creating a focal point for these efforts by identifying central research questions and challenges as well as typical tasks and application scenarios and cast the essence into a set of benchmarks that help us to advance research in this emerging field.

We invite you, as part of the community, to participate in the process of defining the challenge.

How can I participate in the MobiGaze effort?

Visit our PANEL DISCUSSION at PETMEI 2012 to meet us in person
http://2012.petmei.org/home/

Join our MAILINGLIST to participate in the ongoing discussion
http://list.petmei.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/challenge

View/Bookmark our website
http://challenge.petmei.org

Planned Schedule for MobiGaze 2013

  • September 8th:
    Discussion and refinement of the challenge at PETMEI 2012
  • Fall/Winter 2012:
    Data collection
  • Spring 2013:
    Launch of the MobiGaze challenge
    Data and task descriptions appear on the website
  • Summer 2013:
    Submission of contributions. The challenge will close at some time in Summer 2013. One idea is to have the challenge finals presented at PETMEI 2013.

Organizers/Contact

  • Thies Pfeiffer, Bielefeld University (Germany)
    th[..].pf[..] @uni-bielefeld.de
  • Andreas Bulling, University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)
    an[..].bu[..] @acm.org

Call for Papers: PETMEI 2012
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The following call for papers came through at the ETRA 2012 mailing list:

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call, it has been
posted to several relevant mailing lists. Please redistribute within
your own group or among colleagues, thank you very much!]

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CALL FOR PAPERS
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PETMEI 2012 – 2nd International Workshop on Pervasive Eye Tracking
and Mobile Eye-Based Interaction
September 8, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

http://www.petmei.org/2012/

in conjunction with the

14th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2012)

Recent developments in mobile eye tracking equipment and automated eye movement
analysis point the way toward unobtrusive eye-based human-computer interfaces
that are pervasively usable in everyday life. We call this new paradigm
pervasive eye tracking – continuous eye monitoring and analysis 24/7. The
potential applications for the ability to track and analyse eye movements
anywhere and any time call for new research to further develop and understand
visual behaviour and eye-based interaction in daily life settings.

PETMEI 2012 will focus on pervasive eye tracking as a trailblazer for mobile
eye-based interaction and eye-based context-awareness. We provide a forum for
researchers from human-computer interaction, context-aware computing, and eye
tracking to discuss techniques and applications that go beyond classical eye
tracking and stationary eye-based interaction. We want to stimulate and explore
the creativity of these communities with respect to the implications, key
research challenges, and new applications for pervasive eye tracking in
ubiquitous computing. The long-term goal is to create a strong interdisciplinary
research community linking these fields together and to establish the workshop
as the premier forum for research on pervasive eye tracking.

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TOPICS
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Topics of interest cover computational methods, new applications and use cases,
as well as eye tracking technology for pervasive eye tracking and mobile
eye-based interaction. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Methods
* Computer vision tools for face, eye detection and tracking
* Pattern recognition/machine learning for gaze and eye movement analysis
* Integration of pervasive eye tracking and context-aware computing
* Real-time multi-modality sensor fusion
* Techniques for eye tracking on portable devices
* Methods for long-term gaze and eye movement monitoring and analysis
* Gaze modeling for development of conversational agents
* Evaluation of context-aware systems and interfaces
* User studies on impact of and user experience with pervasive eye tracking
* Visual and non-visual feedback for eye-based interfaces
* Interaction techniques including multimodal approaches
* Analysis and interpretation of attention in HCI
* Dual and group eye tracking

Applications
* Pervasive eye-based interaction with public displays, tabletops, and
smart environments
* Eye-based activity and context recognition
* Pervasive healthcare, e.g. mental health monitoring or rehabilitation
* Autism research
* Daily life usability studies and market research
* Mobile attentive user interfaces
* Security and privacy for pervasive eye tracking systems
* Eye tracking in automotive research
* Eye tracking in multimedia research
* Assistive systems, e.g. mobile eye-based text entry
* Mobile eye tracking and interaction for augmented and virtual reality
* Eye-based human-robot and human-agent interaction
* Cognition-aware systems and user interfaces
* Human factors in mobile eye-based interaction
* Eye movement measures in affective computing

Technologies
* New devices for portable, wearable and ambient eye tracking
* Extension of existing eye trackers for pervasive interaction

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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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Prospective authors should submit notes with a maximum length of four pages or
full papers with a maximum length of six pages. In addition to research papers
we explicitly invite submissions of position papers and papers that describe
preliminary results or work-in-progress. All submissions should be prepared
according to the SIGCHI archival format (double column, PDF).

Submissions have to be anonymised to facilitate double blind review. Authors
should take care throughout their paper that their and their institution’s
identity is not revealed. However, relevant references to an author’s previous
research (which may be required for reviewers to understand and evaluate the
paper’s contribution) should not be suppressed but instead referenced in a
neutral way. Submissions should contain no information that will be proprietary
or confidential at the time of publication.

Submissions must not have been previously published or be under simultaneous
review for any other conference, journal, workshop or other publication with
an ISBN, ISSN, or DOI number.

Manuscripts will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee.
Accepted papers will be published in the UbiComp 2012 supplemental proceedings
only if one of the authors is registered for the conference and presents the
paper at the workshop. In addition, printed proceedings will be distributed to
the participants during the workshop. We plan to publish extended versions of
selected papers for an edited book or a special issue of a journal or magazine.

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SUBMISSION WEBSITE
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https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=petmei2012

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper Submission: June 15, 2012 (23:59 PDT)
Notification of Acceptance: June 29, 2012
Camera-ready due: July 6, 2012
Workshop: September 8, 2012

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ORGANISERS
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Andreas Bulling, University of Cambridge & Lancaster University, United Kingdom
Geert Brône, Lessius University College and University of Leuven, Belgium
Shiwei Cheng, Zhejiang University of Technology, China
Päivi Majaranta, University of Tampere, Finland

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE (confirmed, more to join)
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Florian Alt, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Roman Bednarik, University of Eastern Finland, Finland
Nikolaus Bee, BMW Group Research and Technology, Germany
Ralf Biedert, German Research Center for AI, Germany
Andrew Duchowski, Clemson University, USA
Hans Gellersen, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
Dan Witzner Hansen, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Howell Istance, De Montfort University, United Kingdom
Walterio Mayol, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Bilge Mutlu, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Yukiko Nakano, Seikei University, Japan
Thies Pfeiffer, Bielefeld University, Germany
Pernilla Qvarfordt, FX Palo Alto Laboratory, USA

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INVITED SPEAKER
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TBD

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CONTACT AND FURTHER INFORMATION
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E-Mail: petmei2012 at gmail.com
Website: http://www.petmei.org/2012/

ETRA 2012 is up and around the corner
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This is exciting. The biennial Eye Tracking Research & Applications conference 2012 is approaching. Starting on March 28th, the ETRA 2012 is hosted at Santa Barbara, California, USA.

Chance brought it about that March will see me twice in California. First, there will be the IEEE Virtual Reality 2012, 3D User Interfaces and i3D conferences in Orange County starting from March 4th. Then I will soon return at the end of March for the ETRA 2012.

Sophie Stellmach and Kai Essig, two colleagues from Germany, will be there, too. And many others I still need to get to know.

Hope to see you as well,

Thies

 

2nd Call for Papers: EyeTrack Australia Conference 2012
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Matt Eliot posted the 2nd Call for Papers on the Eye Movement Mailing List:

ETA2012: Inaugural EyeTrack Australia Conference
and
ETA2012 Symposium on EEG and Eye Movement Co-Registration

  • May 31st – June 1st 2012
  • CQUniversity Australia
  • Noosaville, QLD, Australia
  • www.cqu.edu.au/eyetrackaustralia

2nd CALL FOR PAPERS

EyeTrack Australia 2012 is the first Australasian conference devoted exclusively to cross-disciplinary eye movement research. By bringing together leading researchers from academia and industry, this conference will support collaboration and knowledge building both within the Australasian eye-tracking sector and the larger global community. The conference committee is pleased to announce that a number of national and international scholars using eye-tracking and user experience methodologies will present cutting edge keynote presentations.

Important Dates 2012

  • 1 March: Full Papers and Short Papers due
  • 1 March: Registration opens on conference website
  • 2 April: Notification of acceptance and feedback to authors
  • 30 May: Preconference Training with Objective Digital (Tobii)
  • 31 May: ETA2012
  • 1 June: ETA2012

Conference Theme

Innovation, Collaboration, and Application. Eye movement research is conducted in a variety of contexts, creating opportunities for cooperation and collaboration between scholars and researchers across disciplines and institutions. This mixture of methodologies, backgrounds, and technologies can create a strong potential for true innovation, true collaboration and quality application. Publications from this conference, and the conference itself, will serve as the initiator for an Australasia-wide network.

General Areas of Interest

  • Cooperation and Collaboration. Lessons learned in conducting eye movement research across multiple institutions, settings, and disciplines.
  • Technological Advances. Innovative uses of existing technology as well as pioneering implementation of new technology in a range of research contexts and disciplines.
  • Eye Tracking Methodologies, Methods, and Applications. Reports of research projects from a range of disciplines.
  • Data Analysis and Interpretation. Key challenges and important discoveries in moving from raw data to findings.
  • Building and Maintaining Research Trajectories. Challenges and opportunities related to situating individual research efforts in a larger research context.

ETA2012 Symposium on EEG and Eye Movement Co-Registration

Significant progress has been made in overcoming many of the technical obstacles to simultaneously gathering brain-electrical (EEG) and eye movement (EM) data under free-viewing conditions. Much of the innovation has taken place in the reading area. Traditionally, EEG studies of reading have employed a rather restrictive paradigm in which words are presented serially in the same location on a screen and the reader is encouraged not to move their eyes. More recently, several research groups have managed to extract reliable event-related potentials time-locked to fixations in EEG-EM paradigms involving natural reading.

The aim of this symposium, part of the inaugural Australian eye tracking conference (ETA2012) organised by CQUniversity Australia, is to bring together researchers in the region who are working on EEG-EM co-registration. Submission topics are not restricted to the area of reading. The symposium will have as a guest speaker, Reinhold Kliegl from the University of Potsdam, who has worked extensively in reading research including EEG-EM co-registration. Additional contributions are now invited from other researchers working in the co-registration field.

This symposium is being chaired by Ronan Reilly, MARCS Auditory Laboratories, University of Western Sydney and Peter de Lissa, Centre for Cognitive Science, Macquarie
University. Dr. Reilly can be reached at: r.reilly@uws.edu.au.

The submission deadline is March 1st, 2012 and guidelines can be found at http://www.cqu.edu.au/eyetrackaustralia. Contributors should indicate on their submission that it is for the EEG-EM symposium.

Pre-Conference Training

On May 30th, the day preceding the conference, conference attendees are invited to attend a separate training event with Objective Digital and an eye tracking expert from Tobii in Sweden. This will be an opportunity to further develop your knowledge and skills in the use of these technologies.

Submissions

Authors are invited to submit original contributions in the Full Paper format (up to 12 pages) and Short Paper format (up to 4 pages). All papers will undergo a peer review process which will assess originality, quality, and relevance to eye movement research. Submission formats and instructions are available on the conference web site. All papers should be submitted using the conference format template and sent to: eyetrackaustralia@cqu.edu.au

Conference Venue

ETA 2012 will be held at the CQUniversity Australia campus in Noosaville, Queensland, on Australia’s Sunshine Coast.

Sponsorship

This conference is co-sponsored by CQUniversity Australia and Objective Eye Tracking, which offers Tobiiproducts throughout Australasia.

Conference Website

www.cqu.edu.au/eyetrackaustralia

Website Eye Movement Research moved to WordPress
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Great news! As of August 2011, the website eyemovementresearch.com moved from static webpages to WordPress. We planned this step to support you, our community, better:

  • you can now search throughout the site for the information you require
  • you can actively participate to make this site a great source of information by participating in online discussions
  • you can refer to individual posts in your own blog
  • we will have a more lively news section
  • we maintain a growing list of upcoming events and you can import them directly into your own calendar using ical

We hope you will enjoy the new platform and support us with critic and comments!

Thies