Project Overview

  • Status: COMPLETE
  • 16 participating labs collected data
  • 125 toddlers tested remotely via webcam
  • 33 authors on Infancy publication

In this multi-lab methodological project, we try to validate an open source, web-based, eye-tracking method for research on cognitive development in young children. More specifically, we evaluate whether this method, which is based on WebGazer.js (Papoutsaki et al., 2016) and jsPsych (de Leeuw, 2015), is comparable to lab-based eye-tracking. Therefore, we aim to replicate findings of an in-lab paradigm of the ManyBabies2 project, which revealed spontaneous goal-directed action anticipation in toddlers using commercial eye-tracking systems (Schuwerk, Kampis et al., 2021).

A toddler participating in the task, with her point-of-gaze depicted as a blue dot
Example areas of interest (AOIs) used during the anticipatory period to distinguish looks to the "Target" region (where the chaser will reappear according to their action goal) and the "Distractor" region (covering the other tunnel exit and it's surroundings)


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MB-ManyWebcams Contributors

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Publication

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Steffan, A., Zimmer, L., Arias-Trejo, N., Bohn, M., Dal Ben, R., Flores-Coronado, M. A., Franchin, L., Garbisch, I., Grosse Wiesmann, C., Hamlin, J. K., Havron, N., Hay, J. F., Hermansen, T. K., Jakobsen, K. V., Kalinke, S., Ko, E.-S., Kulke, L., Mayor, J., Meristo, M., … Schuwerk, T. (2024). Validation of an open source, remote web-based eye-tracking method (WebGazer) for research in early childhood. Infancy, 1(1), 31-55. https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12564
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Adrian Steffan
Lucie Zimmer
Natalia Arias-Trejo
Manuel Bohn
Rodrigo Dal Ben
Marco A. Flores-Coronado
Laura Franchin
Isa Blomberg
Charlotte Grosse Wiesmann
J. Kiley Hamlin
Naomi Havron
Jessica F. Hay
Tone K. Hermansen
Krisztina V. Jakobsen
Steven Kalinke
Eon-Suk Ko
Louisa Kulke
Julien Mayor
Marek Meristo
David Moreau
Seongmin Mun
Julia C. Prein
Hannes Rakoczy
Katrin Rothmaler
Daniela Santos Oliveira
Elizabeth A. Simpson
Sylvain Sirois
Eleanor S. Smith
Karin Strid
Anna-Lena Tebbe
Maleen Thiele
Francis L. Yuen
Tobias Schuwerk