Hello,
I’m writing to invite you to an initial meeting to discuss formalising a group to promote the diagnostic use of eye tracking technology in clinical settings. Although eye trackers have been used in specialist clinics and research labs for decades, the technology is rapidly reducing in price and becoming more mainstream. The society would provide guidance on basic clinical protocols to encourage collaboration and freedom of patient movement.
There are many clinical applications for eye trackers, and a myriad ways to perform, for example, basic saccade assessment. As more clinical centres emerge, one of the issues we face is the lack of consensus on protocols, both for conducting tests and for analysing data (though standards do already exist for some tests, e.g. antisaccades). Minor details such as the velocity of a pursuit target or the choice of low-pass filter may be made for sound reasons, and while each clinic’s current approach may be methodologically valid, it’s clear that consensus on ‘defaults’ would be beneficial, enabling comparison of data between clinics. This situation is similar to that which clinical visual electrophysiologists faced and led to the formation of ISCERG (now ISCEV), and an International Society for Clinical Eye Tracking might be modelled in a similar fashion.
The potential for such a group has emerged over the past few years during an effort by the research community to develop eye tracking research methods reporting guidelines, which are expected to be published in the first half of 2023. Several clinical members of that group expressed a desire to produce clinical standards via a spinout group, which is how this got started. The current effort is therefore focused solely on clinical eye tracking use.
The initial meeting will be held on Wednesday 1st March 2023 at 0700 PST (US Pacific) / 1000 EST (US East Coast) / 1500 GMT (UK) / 1600 CET (Central Europe) at https://cardiff.zoom.us/j/85649474452?pwd=UnlQMmVsNEgyODQzMUNmWmhJVHNJdz09. The meeting is open to all, regardless of eye tracking experience or clinician status. This would be a horizontal effort from across the international community, without any one group or individual driving the agenda. The aim of this meeting would be to discuss the relevance and need (or not) of such a society existing, and how it might be structured (deciding on an open platform for meetings etc). As with ISCEV, the group would likely benefit from non-clinical technical expertise from both researchers and manufacturers. The meeting will be recorded for those that cannot attend live. If you’d like to include something in the agenda please let me know. This message is being sent to several clinical lists and organisations, and please forward to colleagues this may interest.
For further and up-to-date information, please see the web page set up for the event here: https://sites.google.com/view/clinicaleyetracking/home
Regards,
Matt
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