Our Sherlockian Eyes: the Surveillance of Vision – Sean Redmond, Jodi Sita and Kim Vincs

Feb 7, 2015 | Digital Media/Internet, Television, Uncategorized, Volume 25

Abstract For this inter-disciplinary article, we undertook a pilot case study that eye-tracked the ‘Holmes Saves Mrs. Hudson’ sequence from the episode, A Scandal in Belgravia (Sherlock, BBC, 2012). This small-scale empirical study involved a total of 13 participants...

From Subtitles to SMS: Eye Tracking, Texting and Sherlock – Tessa Dwyer

Feb 7, 2015 | Animation, Digital Media/Internet, Film, Television, Uncategorized, Volume 25

Abstract As we progress into the digital age, text is experiencing a resurgence and reshaping as blogging, tweeting and phone messaging establish new textual forms and frameworks. At the same time, an intrusive layer of text, obviously added in post, has started to...

Subtitles on the Moving Image: an Overview of Eye Tracking Studies – Jan Louis Kruger, Agnieszka Szarkowska and Izabela Krejtz

Feb 7, 2015 | Digital Media/Internet, Film, Sound, Television, Uncategorized, Volume 25

Abstract This article provides an overview of eye tracking studies on subtitling (also known as captioning), and makes recommendations for future cognitive research in the field of audiovisual translation (AVT). We find that most studies in the field that have been...

Sound and Sight: An Exploratory Look at Saving Private Ryan through the Eye Tracking Lens – Jennifer Robinson, Jane Stadler and Andrea Rassell

Feb 6, 2015 | Digital Media/Internet, Film, Volume 25

Abstract Using eye tracking as a method to analyse how four subjects respond to the opening Omaha Beach landing scene in Saving Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg, 1998), this article draws on insights from cinema studies about the types of aesthetic techniques that may...

How We Came To Eye Tracking Animation: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Researching the Moving Image – Craig Batty, Claire Perkins, & Jodi Sita

Feb 6, 2015 | Animation, Digital Media/Internet, Film, Volume 25

Abstract In this article, three researchers from a large cross-disciplinary team reflect on their individual experiences of a pilot study in the field of eye tracking and the moving image. The study – now concluded – employed a montage sequence from the Pixar film Up...

Movement, Attention and Movies: the Possibilities and Limitations of Eye Tracking? – Adrian G. Dyer & Sarah Pink

Feb 6, 2015 | Digital Media/Internet, Film, Uncategorized, Volume 25

Abstract Movies often present a rich encapsulation of the diversity of complex visual information and other sensory qualities and affordances that are part of the worlds we inhabit. Yet we still know little about either the physiological or experiential elements of...