Evaluating the validity of the eye movement event detection model of Ganzin Sol glasses

Abstract

Eye tracking requires precise measurement of gaze data. Identifying fixations and saccades reliably is crucial for eye trackers, given these are fundamental eye movements. The present study evaluated the performance of Ganzin Sol glasses, a wearable eye tracker developed by Ganzin Technology, in detecting eye movement events. Participants performed the fixation and saccade invocation task (Komogortsev et al., 2010) and the gap paradigm (Saslow, 1967) using both Ganzin Sol and Tobii Pro 2 glasses separately at both short (50 cm) and long (300 cm) viewing distance. The fixation and saccade invocation task involved maintaining fixation on a regularly shifting visual target, enabling quantitative and qualitative analysis of participants oculomotor behaviors. In the gap paradigm, participants executed saccades toward a peripheral target when the fixation disappeared (gap condition) or remained visible (overlap condition). Typically, saccade latency in the gap condition is shorter (i.e., the gap effect). Results revealed aligned performances with Ganzin Sol and Tobii Pro 2 glasses in the fixation and saccade invocation task and the observation of the gap effect with both eye trackers. Therefore, the validity of Ganzin Sol glasses was at least comparable to Tobii Pro 2 glasses in the present study.