EduEye: Workshop on Eye Tracking in Learning and Education (Tue, May 30, 2023 @ ETRA)

* 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)

10:30 – 10:40 Opening

Welcome address
Overview of the workshop program
Introduction to speakers and participants

10:40 – 11:00 Recap from EDUEye 2022 + Keynote Introduction

Summary of highlights from EDUEye 2022
Introduction of the keynote speaker and their topic

11:00 – 12:00 Keynote by Tamara van Gog: "Using visualisations of eye movements to improve learning "

Keynote presentation
Q&A and open discussion with the keynote speaker

12:00 - 12:30 Brainstorming 1

Breakout groups to discuss potential applications of eye tracking in education
Each group to focus on one topic of interest

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 – 13:50 Session 1: Abstracts (each Abstract 5min + 5 min Discussion)

Sauter, Marian: Getting Lost in the Details? The Paradox of Precision in Educational Eye-Tracking Research
Liu, Shi: AF-Mix: Supporting Self-Regulated Learning with Gaze-Aware Attention Feedback in Mixed Reality

13:50 – 14:50 Session 2: Papers (each Paper 10min + 5 min Discussion)

Marzban, Sheida: The effect of intersemiotic relations on L2 learners' multimodal reading
Byrne, Sean Anthony: Leveraging Eye Tracking in Digital Classrooms: A Step Towards Multimodal Model for Learning Assistance
Burch, Michael: Gaze-Based Monitoring in the Classroom
Appel, Tobias: Investigating Cognitive Load for Tasks with Mathematics and Chemistry Context through Eye Tracking

14:50 – 15:30 Brainstorming 2

Breakout groups to discuss challenges and limitations of eye tracking in education
Each group to focus on one topic of interest

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee / Tea Break

16:00 – 16:30 Group Discussion

Representatives from each brainstorming group present their findings
Open discussion and exchange of ideas between groups

16:30 – 17:15 Results of Group Discussion

Recap of key points from group discussions
Synthesis of findings and identification of future research directions

17:15 – 17:25 Next Steps

Announcement of upcoming events or collaborations
Plans for disseminating workshop results

17:25 – 17:30 Closing

Final remarks and acknowledgments
Farewell and end of the workshop

Keynote

We are happy to announce that Prof. Tamara van Gog will give the keynote for our workshop!

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
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	Tue, May 30, 2023

Organizers

Marian Sauter

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.

Tobias Appel

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.

Michael Burch

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.

Teresa Hirzle

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.