The Future Challenges of Eye Tracking Technologies
A special issue of Journal of Eye Movement Research (ISSN 1995-8692).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2026 | Viewed by 598
Special Issue Editors
Interests: cognitive engineering; human performance; interface design; situation awareness; ecological interface design; cognitive work analysis
Interests: data science; eye tracking; psychophysical; security and privacy; virtual and augmented reality
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Eye tracking has become a widely used method for investigating visual attention, cognitive processing, and human performance. Originally developed within experimental psychology and vision science, eye movement recording is now employed across numerous applied domains where understanding how people allocate visual attention has practical relevance. The accessibility of modern eye tracking equipment, including mobile, remote, and headset-based systems, has facilitated its adoption in field settings beyond the laboratory, enabling researchers to study gaze behavior during real-world tasks and in immersive environments.
This Special Issue aims to garner empirical research, methodological developments, and applied studies that demonstrate how eye movement measures contribute to understanding and improving human performance. Contributions may address questions of usability, training, safety, clinical assessment, or design evaluation where eye tracking serves as the primary input or a complementary research tool.
Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Eye tracking in transportation contexts, including driving, aviation, maritime operations, and rail.
- Gaze-based evaluations of human–computer interfaces, digital products, and interactive systems.
- Methods for the gaze-based modeling of human behavior and performance.
- Clinical and healthcare applications, including diagnostic screening, surgical performance, and patient assessment.
- Eye tracking in educational settings, training environments, and simulation-based learning.
- Applications in process control, industrial inspection, and safety-critical operations.
- Media, advertising, and visual communication research.
- Sport performance analysis and expertise studies.
- Consumer behavior and retail research.
- Assistive technology and gaze-based interaction systems.
- Methodological considerations for eye tracking i mobile, remote, and VR/AR headset applications.
- The use of eye tracking within human factors analysis and human reliability assessment.
- Hardware technologies.
- Software and data analysis technologies.
- Ethics and data privacy.
- Human-related issues including cognitive psychology.
- AI-related technologies.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Nathan Lau
Dr. Brendan David-John
Michael Hildebrandt
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- eye tracking
- visual attention
- applied research
- human factors
- usability
- human–computer interaction
- training
- gaze behavior
- field studies
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