Use eye tracking to figure out usability issues, the open source way
UB4.132 | Day 2 | 16:30 - 16:55 | Speakers: Dmitriy Kostiuk
Abstract
The talk considers usage of eye trackers to track usability issues in FLOSS. The use of consumer-grade hardware eye trackers is considered for cases when there is an SDK for Linux available, and when there is not. A webcam-based software eye tracking approach is considered as well and compared with hardware eye tracking using illustrative examples. Visualization of short-term and long-term eye tracking data series is explained with sample code for Graphviz and GNU Octave. Examples of eye tracking heatmaps and their usage scenarios are discussed, as well as using mouse heatmaps as supplementary data.
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I'm a GNU/Linux & free/libre software activist, originally from Belarus. I co-organized several FLOSS conferences in Eastern Europe: Linux Vacation / Eastern Europe in Belarus has been my main focus for 15 years (before 2022), and I have also been co-organizer of several other conferences (such as FOSS Lviv and OSDN|Conf in Ukraine). In addition, I continue to give FLOSS-related talks at FOSDEM and other events, and teach Linux-related courses at few Eastern European Universities.
My open-source activities are targeted at software development, writing and managing technical documentation, education, and the community. My main areas of interest are GNU/Linux architecture and software development and research, open-source databases, virtualization, desktop environments, history of the GUI, and UI/UX.
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