A cookbook for eye tracking in software engineering

Lisa Grabinger; Naser Al Madi; Roman Bednarik; Teresa Busjahn; Fabian Engl; Timur Ezer; Hans Gruber; Florian Hauser; Jonathan I. Maletic; Unaizah Obaidellah; Kang-il Park; Bonita Sharif; Zohreh Sharafi; Lynsay Shepherd; Jürgen Mottok

doi:10.1145/3723010.3723018

A cookbook for eye tracking in software engineering

Lisa Grabinger, Naser Al Madi, Roman Bednarik, Teresa Busjahn, Fabian Engl, Timur Ezer, Hans Gruber, Florian Hauser, Jonathan I. Maletic, Unaizah Obaidellah, Kang-il Park, Bonita Sharif, Zohreh Sharafi, Lynsay Shepherd, Jürgen Mottok

Department of Cybersecurity and Computing

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Eye tracking technology offers valuable insights into how developers and users interact with software artifacts, tools, and interfaces. However, conducting empirical eye tracking research comes with a number of challenges. To assist researchers and students new to the field, this article provides a concise summary of the background as well as the key considerations. As an additional resource, we present a detailed checklist along with its application. Note that both the outline and the checklist are specifically tailored to, but not limited to, the context of software engineering research.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ECSEE '25
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Software Engineering Education
Editors	Jürgen Mottok, Georg Hagel
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	60-76
Number of pages	17
ISBN (Electronic)	9798400712821
ISBN (Print)	9798400712821
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3723010.3723018
Publication status	Published - 2 Jun 2025
Event	6th European Conference on Software Engineering Education - Seeon Monastery, Seeon, Germany Duration: 2 Jun 2025 → 4 Jun 2025 Conference number: 6th http://ecsee.eu/

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Conference	6th European Conference on Software Engineering Education
Abbreviated title	ECSEE 2025
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Seeon
Period	2/06/25 → 4/06/25
Internet address	http://ecsee.eu/

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Reference guide
Empirical research
Checklist

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Grabinger, L., Al Madi, N., Bednarik, R., Busjahn, T., Engl, F., Ezer, T., Gruber, H., Hauser, F., Maletic, J. I., Obaidellah, U., Park, K., Sharif, B., Sharafi, Z., Shepherd, L., & Mottok, J. (2025). A cookbook for eye tracking in software engineering. In J. Mottok, & G. Hagel (Eds.), ECSEE '25: Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Software Engineering Education (pp. 60-76). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3723010.3723018

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Grabinger, L, Al Madi, N, Bednarik, R, Busjahn, T, Engl, F, Ezer, T, Gruber, H, Hauser, F, Maletic, JI, Obaidellah, U, Park, K, Sharif, B, Sharafi, Z, Shepherd, L & Mottok, J 2025, A cookbook for eye tracking in software engineering. in J Mottok & G Hagel (eds), ECSEE '25: Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Software Engineering Education. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York, pp. 60-76, 6th European Conference on Software Engineering Education, Seeon, Bavaria, Germany, 2/06/25. https://doi.org/10.1145/3723010.3723018

A cookbook for eye tracking in software engineering. / Grabinger, Lisa; Al Madi, Naser; Bednarik, Roman et al.
ECSEE '25: Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Software Engineering Education. ed. / Jürgen Mottok; Georg Hagel. New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2025. p. 60-76.

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