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Here is a slideshow of the iLab's 2014 exhibit at the Science Museum of Minnesota!
Children of all ages took a seat and experienced what it's like to be a participant in the Macalester iLab. They learned how to determine their dominate eye, experienced calibration, and took part in several of our eye tracker based studies. They learned about the importance of psychology experiments and the useful insights equipment like the eye tracker can make!
Eye trackers like the one used in the slideshow to the left can carefully follow the subtle movements our eyes make when we are reading a passage of text or looking over some image. Patterns can be found in these movements that bring insights onto how people react to certain phrases or images. These insights as a whole can help us to better understand some cognitive processes of humans.
Tennis Works 2017 Visit
As a part of "Tennis Works" - a project started by Brandon Hinrichs '17 aimed at developing scientific curiosity among middle-schoolers passionate about tennis, a group of students of the Fred Wells Tennis & Education Center visited Macalester's iLab on the 9th of April, 2016. The idea was to help them gain a psychological perspective on their game.
At the iLab, the students were made to participate in gaze-contingent experiments that illustrated to them concepts of foveal and peripheral vision. They understood the similarities and differences between the two concepts and how they are such important cognitive functions involved with every tennis strategy - from keeping a track of the other player while focusing on the ball, to being able to trick one's opponent by looking in one direction while hitting in the other!
Halloween
For Halloween the Macalester iLab opens to students for chocolate eye-balls, iLab information, and a chance to learn more about the eye-tracking equipment and current research. Spooky!
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