Abstract
The gaze behavior in sports and other applied settings has been studied for more than 20 years. A common finding is related to the “quiet eye” (QE), predicting that the duration of the last fixation before a critical event is associated with higher performance. Unlike previous studies conducted in applied settings with mobile eye trackers, we investigate the QE in a context similar to esport, in which participants click the mouse to hit targets presented on a computer screen under different levels of cognitive load. Simultaneously, eye and mouse movements were tracked using a high-end remote eye tracker at 300 Hz. Consistent with previous studies, we found that longer QE fixations were associated with higher performance. Increasing the cognitive load delayed the onset of the QE fixation, but had no significant influence on the QE duration. We discuss the implications of our results in the context of how the QE is defined, the quality of the eye-tracker data, and the type of analysis applied to QE data.
Highlights
The gaze behavior in various kind of sports and the possibility for novices to enhance performance by trying to mimic experts’ gaze behavior has been studied for more than 20 years. This finding is limited to sports, but is found in other applied settings such as shooting performance of police officers (Vickers and Lewinski, 2012) and surgical skills of medical personnel (Causer et al, 2014). We investigate another type of task: a computerized precision task, similar to those found in computerized first-person shooter (FPS) games in which participants aim and shoot at targets, and where accuracy and speed are often essential for success
There was a significant effect of cognitive load on quiet eye (QE) onset (Figure 3A), where a higher cognitive load was associated with later QE onsets [Low: M = 379.8 ms, SD = 119.1 ms; High: M = 417.4 ms, SD = 5 131.6 ms; β = 46.1 (SE = 14.4), t = 3.18, p < 0.01]
Since QE behavior may be influenced by hit accuracy, and the time until the ‘shot’ is fired, we model QE duration and QE onset as a function of both speed and accuracy
Summary
The gaze behavior in various kind of sports and the possibility for novices to enhance performance by trying to mimic experts’ gaze behavior has been studied for more than 20 years (for an overview, see Lebeau et al, 2016; Kredel et al, 2017; Hüttermann et al, 2018). This finding is limited to sports, but is found in other applied settings such as shooting performance of police officers (Vickers and Lewinski, 2012) and surgical skills of medical personnel (Causer et al, 2014).
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