Brock University Child Research
The Smart Eye and EGI system together in an isolated test room.
Brock University is located close to beautiful Niagara Falls in Canada. The researches in the Department of Child and Youth Studies are using a Smart Eye Pro Single Screen Eye Tracker together with an Geodesic EEG system from EGI to help them in their research on small children.
This customer is doing Geodesic EEG research on very young participants. They are using the Geodesic EEG system from EGI to record and analyse the EEG while displaying stimuli to the participants. To gather even more data, they choose to use Smart Eye's Single Screen Eye Tracker to be able to link events such as blinks, fixations and saccades to the EEG to what the participant is actually doing and where on the stimuli is the participant looking.
Since the participants are young and unpredictable the customer needed a robust system with a large head box. Additionally it is important that the participant does not get distracted during the test trial so the customer needs an Eye Tracker which is non-intrusive, with these criterias Smart Eye is the only reliable solution on the market.
Even though the participants are wearing Geodesic EEG net, Smart Eye successfully performs quality tracking on a majority of the population. On difficult participants Smart Eye's automatic profile generation can be applied to track on even the hardest cases. Another important aspect of the research is to have millisecond accuracy between the EEG and Smart Eye data, therefore a high resolution time synchronization technology is used between the two systems.
System specifications:
- PC with Smart Eye Pro
- Two 60 Hz VGA NIR cameras on a 21" screen
- EGI module
- Pupillometry module