Pages
Categories
Archives
Meta
Category Archives: PhD Coursework
Reading Research Text Search, Pt 1
Began searching for an appropriate core text for reading research. Began with Wikipedia but ended up migrating to Connexions. Have downloaded and upacked several EPUB files from Connexions and re-uploaded to own server. Will need to edit, hyperlink, and format docs. Also analyzed one text for readability using Flesch with varying results. Will post those [...]
Infrared Safety
Began looking for articles on the safety of infrared exposure, especially in eye tracking scenarios. So far results are mixed or difficult to generalize to eyetracking. The biomedical research enters into the wild and crazy world of animal subject research: “Animals from these two irradiated groups were subdivided into two subgroups; one of them was [...]
Posted in PhD Coursework Leave a comment
USAProxy Setup Failed
First attempt at running USAProxy on a simple LAMP install has failed, primarily, I think, because I don’t really understand how Java is supposed to work on a web server. This will need a nice Saterday afternoon of troubleshooting, I think. But, unfortunately, not this Saturday.
Posted in PhD Coursework Leave a comment
DIY Eye Tracking Hardware In
Purchased hardware to test the ITU GazeTracker oss, including Thorlabs camera, lens, IR filter, and two IR lights –details forthcoming Successfully up and running in office on Win XP, sans log files. Will troubleshoot next week.
Forced mouse tracking of reading behavior
I just had the wacky idea that I could force users in an experimental situation to engage in movements that help track their reading behavior in a web browser. This method would employ Javascript and CSS–in short, the script would obscure text outside of the foveal vision area–the readable foveal vision area would be centered [...]
Also posted in From jaredstein.org Tagged deresearch, ideas, light pen, process, reading, repost, tracking 3 Comments
A Diagram of Reading Media
I was in diagramming mode this afternoon, thinking through different aspects of the processes and interactions of reading. One sketch led me to the following simple visualization of printed vs. digital media. This draft excludes forms and modes, and may only be useful as a component of my own understanding:
To have real-world value…
“According to many educational researchers and contrary to the arguments of those pushing for experimental research as the gold standard, the messiness of real-world practice must be recognized, understood, and integrated as part of theoretical claims if the claims are to have real-world explanatory value. From this perspective, examining teaching and learning as isolated variables [...]
Challenges for online reading researchers
Some thoughts re. future challenges and opportunities for researchers interested in online reading that were burbling as I drove to Layton today: * reading detection without eyetracking * eyetracking in mobile computer device * ecologically valid studies of reading for learning; more authentic environments and tasks ** quasi-experimental research of online users in their natural [...]
Posted in PhD Coursework Tagged challenges, deresearch, hypertext, ideas, online, questions, reading 2 Comments
Logical arguments of tracking reading
I’ve been thinking about eyetracking as a useful indicator of reading, and how other indicators may be used to track user activity on the web. Many eyetracking studies presume to know when reading occurs via movement patterns. Even accepting the eye-mind hypothesis, Jakob Nielsen reminds us, “By itself, eyetracking can do one thing and one [...]
Also posted in IPT 692R - Research in DE & Blended Tagged deresearch, eyetracking, interaction, logic, reading, tracking 1 Comment
smt2 and Usaproxy set up on fresh server