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Eye Tracking Gamechanger: Why Smartphone Eye Tracking will Revolutionize Your UX Research
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Friday, March 11, 2022 • Advancing Research 2022
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Eye Tracking Gamechanger: Why Smartphone Eye Tracking will Revolutionize Your UX Research
Speakers: Jeff Ephraim Bander , Ariane Rahn and Philipp Reiter
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Summary

The synergy of smartphone eye-tracking and user experience research allows a combination of behavioral insights and in-depth answers. eye square's standardized experimental approach provides the ideal setting for large-scale eye-tracking research. This helps to understand how your end-users interact with your product, their mental model, and how information architecture and UI design can be improved.

Key Insights

  • Smartphone eye tracking allows UX research in users' natural environments, increasing data realism and accuracy.

  • iSquare's 'system zero' refers to contextual eye tracking as the foundational layer beneath explicit and implicit user responses.

  • Eye tracking captures not only what users look at but also what they ignore, revealing critical blind spots.

  • Modern smartphone cameras combined with AI algorithms enable highly accurate eye tracking without specialized hardware.

  • Eye tracking data helps generate new hypotheses by making subconscious attention patterns visible and measurable.

  • Integrating eye tracking with traditional UX methods strengthens stakeholder confidence in findings.

  • Users often inaccurately report their experiences; eye tracking reveals discrepancies between perceived and actual behavior.

  • Calibration using users’ own phones ensures personalized and precise eye tracking results remotely.

  • Aggregate heatmaps and visit metrics enable quick identification of UI elements that attract or lose user attention.

  • Eye tracking is best used when research goals are clear and when it is the simplest method to answer key questions.

Notable Quotes

"Eye tracking lets you see the world from the point of view of another person."

"Eye tracking can show you what people see, in what order, for how long, and crucially, what they don't see."

"The foundation to getting good insights is system zero – the realistic, natural environment."

"People just use their normal mobile smartphone, no special devices needed, as long as it's less than three years old."

"Sometimes it is hard to articulate what you looked at, but eye tracking makes it measurable and objective."

"Eye tracking helps to generate instant new hypotheses by revealing what a user noticed or missed."

"Only 38% of people actually looked at the company review information, even though it was crucial."

"Subjective user ratings said a task was fine, but eye tracking showed they didn’t see important information."

"You should always have your research questions first before deciding to use eye tracking."

"Eye tracking is not the holy grail, but it’s an awesome method to understand what the user is thinking."

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