Titta: A Toolbox for Creating PsychToolbox and Psychopy Experiments with Tobii Eye Trackers

Overview

Journal Behav Res Methods

Publisher Springer

Specialty Social Sciences

Date 2020 Mar 5

PMID 32128697

Citations 16

Authors

Diederick C Niehorster

Richard Andersson

Marcus Nystrom

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Abstract

We present Titta, an open-source toolbox for controlling eye trackers manufactured by Tobii AB from MATLAB and Python. The toolbox provides a wrapper around the Tobii Pro SDK, providing a convenient graphical participant setup, calibration and validation interface implemented using the PsychToolbox and PsychoPy toolboxes. The toolbox furthermore enables MATLAB and Python experiments to communicate with Tobii Pro Lab through the TalkToProLab tool. This enables experiments to be created and run using the freedom of MATLAB and Python, while the recording can be visualized and analyzed in Tobii Pro Lab. All screen-mounted Tobii eye trackers that are supported by the Tobii Pro SDK are also supported by Titta. At the time of writing, these are the Spectrum, Nano, TX300, T60XL, X3-120, X2-60, X2-30, X60, X120, T60 and T120 from Tobii Pro, and the 4C from Tobii Tech.

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