EduEye: Workshop on Eye Tracking in Learning and Education
*** EduEye 2023 will take place as part of ETRA 2023 in Tübingen ***
Workshop Description
With its duality of being an active input technology and a passive sensor, eye tracking provides unique opportunities for education and learning. Actively, the technology can serve as an input strategy for interactive learning environments. Passively, it can be applied to observe learning states and gain a better understanding of learners' cognitive processes. Given its scalability, it can, or instance, help to improve collaborative learning, e.g., by establishing connections between learners during online lectures. Teachers or lecturers can also gain feedback about their learning material by analyzing students' eye gazes. However, many open challenges remain for the application of mobile eye tracking in learning and educational scenarios, including technical constraints and privacy concerns. This workshop specifically targets researchers and practitioners who are interested in using eye tracking in education and learning. This includes researchers from all areas of psychology, human-computer interaction, computer science, eye tracking methodology, and other related fields.
Workshop Program (preliminary)
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Welcome and introduction to workshop goals (10 min + 20 min)
The workshop will start with an introduction given by the workshop organizers. In the introduction the organizers will introduce the workshop topic and summarize its goals. This will be followed by a short introduction of the workshop participants to get to know each other and the topics that everybody is working on/interested in discussing during the workshop. For this, each participant will prepare one slide with information about their background (e.g., affiliation, main research interest) and what they are interested in discussing during the workshop. Every person will have 30 seconds to present this initial slide. -
Keynote (30 min + 10 min)
The keynote will be given by tba -
Coffee break (10 min)
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Parallel group discussions (100 min)
The participants of the workshop will prepare short 3-min video presentations of their work. We will then spend most of the workshop on working in small groups to develop research ideas together. We have assigned all contributions to topics (see schedule on website). We will start the working session with playing your 3-minute presentations. After that, all participants (presenters and attendees) can work together on developing an answer to the questions: The classroom of the future, what would education look like in 15 years? Which studies should be conducted to get there? Of course, we ask you to focus on the role of eye tracking in this vision. Your presentation can form an inspiration for this question and you may present your ideas already in the presentation. -
Final discussion in plenary and farewell (60 min)
The results of the group discussions will be presented in the final plenary. Each group will have 10 minutes to present their results.
Topics of Interest
- Cognitive states of learners, including attentiveness, proficiency, and cognitive load
- Teacher-student interaction and student-student interaction
- Eye movement modeling examples and other applications of visualizing gaze to improve education
- Eye gazes for education in 3D or virtual reality
- Collaborative learning (including remote and co-located learning)
- Eye tracking as active input strategy for interactive learning environments
- Eye tracking devices and hardware for education
- Privacy issues in educational eye tracking
- Crowd-sourced eye tracking studies for education
- Eye tracking research on learning to read and reading strategies
- Instructional design research and multimedia learning with eye tracking
- Research on expertise differences in gaze in medicine or other domains
Call for Papers
The workshop targets researchers and practitioners who are interested in the application of eye tracking in education and learning. We take a broad perspective on this topic and welcome submissions from the fields of human-computer interaction, cognitive psychology, computer science, eye tracking, and the learning sciences. We offer two types of submissions:
Extended Abstract | Workshop Paper | |
Submission length | up to 4 pages (excluding references) | 4 to 8 pages (excluding references) |
Format | single column, ACM master article template submissions should not be anonymized | single column, ACM master article template submissions have to be anonymized |
Selection process | juried by the workshop organizers | reviewed by 2-3 program committee members |
Publication | will not be published but can made available on the EduEye website, if the authors want to | will be published in the ETRA '23 Workshop Proceedings |
Submission | through PCS (choose Society: ETRA, Conference/Journal: ETRA 2023, Track: ETRA 2023 Workshop - Eye Tracking in Learning and Education) | through PCS (choose Society: ETRA, Conference/Journal: ETRA 2023, Track: ETRA 2023 Workshop - Eye Tracking in Learning and Education) |
What should be submitted? | - work in progress, initial study results, summary of previous studies, position paper, argument - Note, an extended abstract does not have to present original research | - work in progress, initial study results, summary of previous studies, position paper, argument - Note, a workshop paper does not have to present original research
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Who should submit? | Extended abstracts are mainly targeted towards researchers who want to participate in the workshop but are not interested in having their paper published in the Workshop Proceedings. | Workshop papers are mainly targeted towards researchers who are interested in participating in the workshop and would like to have their paper published as part of the Workshop Proceedings. |
Camera-ready version | through PCS, please use the ACM Master Article Template (one-column) for the final submission | through TAPS |
Participants
We welcome participants from the fields of human-computer interaction, cognitive psychology, computer science, eye tracking, and learning sciences.
Important Dates
Notification | March 20, 2023 |
Camera ready deadline | March 28, 2023 |
Workshop | between May 30 and June 2, exact day tbd |
Organizers

is a postdoctoral cognitive psychologist at Ulm University in the project ``Gaze-assisted scalable interaction paradigms for pervasive classrooms''. His research interests are in human perception and visual attention in applied contexts outside the classical lab. He has already organized the Conference for Experimental Psychologists '21 (TeaP '21), EduEye 2022 and webinars on online experiments.

is a postdoctoral researcher at the Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology in Tübingen. His research is situated at the intersection of computer science and educational science, with a methodological focus on eye tracking and physiological sensors.

is an Associate Professor at the University of Applied Sciences in Chur, Switzerland. His main research interests are in information visualization, visual analytics, data science, and eye tracking. He organized and co-chaired the workshops on eye tracking and visualization (ETVIS) in the past four editions and is now in the steering committee of ETVIS. Moreover, he was paper co-chair of VisSoft 2019, VINCI 2019, 2021 as well as general chair of VINCI 2020 and 2022.

is a postdoctoral researcher in the human-centered computing section at the University of Copenhagen. Her research interests are in human-computer interaction, in particular, extended reality and eye tracking. She co-organized the workshop on Eyewear Computing at UbiComp 2021, was Short Paper co-chair of ETRA 2021, and co-organized the German Pre-CHI Event 2020 and the Virtual German CHI Event 2020. She also co-organized the first edition of the EduEye workshop in 2022.
Archive
EduEye 2022
Go to the Archive of EduEye 2022 (virtual)