Abstract
Eye tracking is increasingly being used in Educational Science and so has the interest of the eye tracking community grown in this topic. In this paper we briefly introduce the discipline of Educational Science and why it might be interesting to couple it with eye tracking research. We then introduce three major research areas in Educational Science that have already successfully used eye tracking: First, eye tracking has been used to improve the instructional design of computer-based learning and testing environments, often using hyper- or multimedia. Second, eye tracking has shed light on expertise and its development in visual domains, such as chess or medicine. Third, eye tracking has recently been also used to promote visual expertise by means of eye movement modeling examples. We outline the main educational theories for these research areas and indicate where further eye tracking research is needed to expand them.
Highlights
Eye tracking is increasingly being used in Educational Science and so has the interest of the eye tracking community grown in this topic
Professionals have to operate complex computer-generated simulations, while students have to learn from all sorts of visualizations, such as videos, and often they have to integrate information from many sources. These are just few examples of where eye tracking can aid in understanding and even improving learning and its instruction within Educational Science
In the current paper we have introduced Educational Science as a field of applied eye tracking research
Summary
Eye tracking is increasingly being used in Educational Science and so has the interest of the eye tracking community grown in this topic. In this paper we briefly introduce the discipline of Educational Science and why it might be interesting to couple it with eye tracking research. We introduce three major research areas in Educational Science that have already successfully used eye tracking: First, eye tracking has been used to improve the instructional design of computer-based learning and testing environments, often using hyper- or multimedia. Eye tracking has shed light on expertise and its development in visual domains, such as chess or medicine. Eye tracking has recently been used to promote visual expertise by means of eye movement modeling examples. We outline the main educational theories for these research areas and indicate where further eye tracking research is needed to expand them
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