Scaneval: A Toolkit for Eye-Tracking Research and Attention-Driven Applications

ScanEval is an eye tracking software toolkit that records and processes eye movement data in terms of screen regions of interest. Based on these data, the system provides real-time attention assessment measures that can be used dynamically to provide feedback to an application, as well as a variety of summary measures and data capture that can be used for post analysis. This toolkit can be used for a wide variety of purposes including: reactive multi-media or multi-modal systems, training systems incorporating attention assessment, interface design and evaluation, or human factors experimentation. ScanEval is designed as a self-contained program with an application programming interface, for ease of integration with existing applications. It represents a major new enabling technology for commercial systems, in that it will make eye-tracking and visual attention measurement readily available to system developers.