Quantifying Sight: Methods for Studying Eye Movement Patterns While Viewing Paintings
Presenter Status
Faculty
Session
B-1
Location
Buller Room 208
Start Date
14-5-2015 10:50 AM
End Date
14-5-2015 11:15 AM
Presentation Abstract
Artists report making intentional decisions about composition in order to guide viewers’ eyes through a painting. In order to examine the degree to which artists’ intuitions about composition are accurate, we tracked the eye movements of individuals viewing watercolor paintings for the first time, and compared their eye movement patterns to the predictions of the artists. We report on the efficacy of adopting methods from other disciplines for analyzing sequential eye movement data relative to a two-dimensional images, focusing especially on the use of sequence analysis and circular statistics.
Quantifying Sight: Methods for Studying Eye Movement Patterns While Viewing Paintings
Buller Room 208
Artists report making intentional decisions about composition in order to guide viewers’ eyes through a painting. In order to examine the degree to which artists’ intuitions about composition are accurate, we tracked the eye movements of individuals viewing watercolor paintings for the first time, and compared their eye movement patterns to the predictions of the artists. We report on the efficacy of adopting methods from other disciplines for analyzing sequential eye movement data relative to a two-dimensional images, focusing especially on the use of sequence analysis and circular statistics.