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Quiet Eye Solutions (QES) is a research driven, rule based, gaze and motor behaviour coding software application.
The coding rules, detailed in the user manual and in Vickers (2007), are based on established science from the
eye tracking and motor behaviour literatures.
Eye tracking technology has become extremely light, mobile and now tetherless, allowing a wide variety
of free-movement activities to be studied. Quiet Eye Solutions couples the gaze and motor videos and
synchronizes them so they can be coded in the same time line. QES speeds the coding process and features
instant playback of any phase or gaze during coding. The main interface is shown below
and includes the following:
- The Vision-in-Action video window (bottom left):
- motor and gaze videos open in the same window and are synchronized in the same timeline, thus removing the need
for expensive video mixers and other timing devices
- the video on the far left shows the golfer’s motor phases while the video on the right shows his gaze, as indicated by the
small red circle
- each video can be sized independently to facilitate coding
- The QES user interface (bottom right):
- the video is navigated to key points using either the controls on the interface, or the arrow keys on the keyboard
- with a mouse click the onset and offset of the motor phases can be easily coded, as well as the types of gaze (fixations,
pursuit tracking, saccades) and their locations, onsets, offsets and durations
- the Quiet Eye can be calculated in a wide range of activities
- The Data Log (top):
- keeps track of your data at all times
- shows the participant’s name, trials, experimental conditions, the Quiet Eye, motor phases and all gaze as they are coded.
- the trial being coded is shown in bold; the phase or gaze being coded is highlighted; and a progress bar shows your
position in the trial
- the coder is kept oriented, minimizing search time
- data is saved in *.csv text format and imports directly into statistical packages and spreadsheets
- previously coded trials can be re-loaded, played back, checked and edited
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