17 February 2011

There Will Be Blood - with gaze locations of 11 viewers

This fascinating video shows you exactly where on the screen and for how long 11 viewers are watching this clip from There Will Be Blood.

This is an excerpt from There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007). 11 adult viewers were shown the video and their eye movements recorded using an Eyelink 1000 (SR Research) infra-red camera-based eyetracker. Each dot represents the center of one viewer's gaze. The size of each dot represents the length of time they have held fixation.



Created by The DIEM (Dynamic Images and Eye Movements) Project:
Research in the DIEM project is focused on understanding human vision during complex real-world scene perception. Because human visual perception involves active information seeking via eye movements, much of the work in the lab focuses on eye movements and human gaze control.

Topics of interest in the lab include fast scene recognition, visual search in natural scenes, visual memory and scene representation, eye movement control during static and dynamic scene viewing, and the integration of visual and linguistic information in natural contexts.

We are also interested in computational approaches to these questions and implementation of underlying processes in the human brain as revealed by neuroimaging techniques such as pupillary response, fMRI and ERP.

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