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<span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:700">Special Issue of Behavior Research Methods</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:700">Practical Issues in Eye tracking for Naturalistic Behavior</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400">Dear all,</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400">Following the </span><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/activeye"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#0000ff;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none">ActivEye
Workshop 2021</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400">, held at ACM Eye Tracking Research and Application conference (ETRA 2021), we’re inviting contributions for a Special Issue focused
on </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none">Practical Issues in Eye Tracking for Naturalistic Behavior</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400">,
to be published in the Journal Behavior Research Methods. The Special Issue will feature selected contributions from the workshop and is open to external contributions. All submissions will undergo the journal’s rigorous
</span><a href="https://www.springer.com/journal/13428/submission-guidelines"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#0000ff;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none">peer-review policy</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400"> to
ensure high quality and innovative publications</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:700">About the Special Issue</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400">The goal of the Special Issue is to bring together contributions from oculomotor/vision, engineering, human factors, psychology, and computer science communities
to share practical solutions, approaches, implementations, datasets, or theories that address the challenges in eye tracking measurements during naturalistic behavior. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:700">Suggested Topics List</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:#ffffff;font-style:italic;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none">Robust Gaze tracking in challenging environments</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:700">:</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:#ffffff"> Topics
can include algorithms for 2D and 3D gaze tracking of active participants outside of the lab, slippage detection and correction, run-time and post-hoc re-calibration, and validation techniques. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:#ffffff;font-style:italic;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none">Head pose tracking.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:#ffffff;font-style:italic"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:#ffffff">We
invite studies that take into account the synergy between the eye and head movements and especially encourage contributions to onboard head pose tracking systems, post-hoc head tracking techniques, and head + eye movement classification algorithms in order
to better understand the underlying oculomotor mechanisms.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:#ffffff;font-style:italic;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none">World Camera Characteristics.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:#ffffff;font-style:italic"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:#ffffff">Typically,
portable eye-tracking devices have a limited field of view, poor optics, and low-quality world video. We encourage studies that address issues of image quality, dynamic range, wide FOV gaze tracking, color consistency, frame rate, spatial resolution, quality
vs. size compromise, and modern depth-sensing techniques.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:#ffffff;font-style:italic;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none">Extending use cases to special populations.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:#ffffff;font-style:italic"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:#ffffff">The
day-to-day challenges of mobile eye-tracking are often exacerbated under certain experimental conditions and with specific participant populations. The latter can include children and older adults, who might have additional ergonomic and physiological constraints;
or patient populations (</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:#ffffff;font-style:italic">e.g.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:#ffffff">, those with strabismus or visual field damage).</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:#ffffff;font-style:italic;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none">Gaze Tracking Data Annotation.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:#ffffff;font-style:italic"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:#ffffff">Considering
the growing demands for state-of-the-art deep learning techniques, a key feature of a usable dataset is that it is accurately and reliably annotated. We welcome submissions that include efforts for annotating different aspects of such datasets efficiently,
including but not limited to different types of eye + head movements, external events, different eye regions for real or synthetic images, and scene objects.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:#ffffff;font-style:italic;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none">Best Practices and DIY.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:#ffffff;font-style:italic"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:#ffffff">We
encourage submissions on best practices for running large-scale data collection, such as comparisons of different calibration routines, efforts to enhance participant comfort, experimental procedures, UI design for system error tolerance, error handling, and
notifications.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:#ffffff;font-style:italic;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none">Devices Ergonomy.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:#ffffff;font-style:italic"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:#ffffff">Participant
discomfort with most head-mounted trackers is a key obstacle in the collection of large-scale and outdoor data, particularly for extended time periods. We welcome submissions where researchers in academia and industry share their experiences and potential
solutions.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:700">About the Journal</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400">The journal
</span><a href="https://www.springer.com/journal/13428"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#0000ff;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none">Behavior Research Methods</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400"> is
a publication of the Psychonomic Society and publishes articles concerned with the methods, techniques, and instrumentation of research in experimental psychology. The journal focuses particularly on the use of computer technology in psychological research.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:700">Impact Factor (2020): 6.242</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:700">Submission Deadline:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400">January 10, 2022</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:700">Special Issue Guest Editors:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400">Marcus Nyström, Lund University, Lund, Sweden,
</span><a href="mailto:marcus.nystrom@humlab.lu.se"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#0000ff;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none">marcus.nystrom@humlab.lu.se</span></a></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400">Natela Shanidze, The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute,
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400">Agostino Gibaldi, Magic Leap,
</span><a href="mailto:agostino.gibaldi@gmail.com"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#0000ff;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none">agostino.gibaldi@gmail.com</span></a></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400">Kamran Binaee, University of Nevada, Reno,
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