Read, Watch, Listen: A commentary on eye tracking and moving images – Tim J. Smith

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

Abstract Eye tracking is a research tool that has great potential for advancing our understanding of how we watch movies. Questions such as how differences in the movie influences where we look and how individual differences between viewers alters what we see can be...

Politicizing Eye tracking Studies of Film – William Brown

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

Abstract This essay puts eye tracking studies of cinema into contact with film theory, or what I term film-philosophy, so as to distinguish film theory from specifically cognitive film theory. Looking at the concept of attention, the essay explains how winning and...

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...