Webcams as Windows to the Mind? A Direct Comparison Between In-Lab and Web-Based Eye-Tracking Methods.

Mieke Sarah Slim, Margaret Kandel, Anthony Yacovone, Jesse Snedeker

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Article in Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

In-lab versus web-based eye-tracking in decision-making: A systematic comparison on multiple display-size conditions mimicking common electronic devices.Behavior research methods · 2025
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A web-based mouse-tracking task for early perceptual language processing.Behavior research methods · 2025
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The Feasibility of Remote Visual-World Eye-Tracking With Young Children.Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Mieke Sarah SlimLanguage Development Department, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands.

Margaret KandelDepartment of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0009-8385-9745

Anthony YacovoneDepartment of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Jesse SnedekerDepartment of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There is a growing interest in the use of webcams to conduct eye-tracking experiments over the internet. We assessed the performance of two webcam-based eye-tracking techniques for behavioral research: manual annotation of webcam videos (

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eye-trackinglanguage processingpsycholinguisticsreal-time processingvisual world paradigmweb-based experimentationWebGazer

Identifiers

PMID39654819

DOI10.1162/opmi_a_00171

PMCPMC11627531

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