About

Remit

The International Society for Clinical Eye Tracking (ISCET) was established in March 2023 and is a forum for international consensus on open standards. ISCET aims to:

1. Provide guidance and 'default' minimal protocols for conducting and analyzing eye tracking tasks in clinical settings*

• ISCET protocols will be organised by the condition that they intend to diagnose, and will be developed by focus groups with input across the international eyetracking community. All are welcome to contribute to any given standard, taking into account the possibility of conflicts of interest. In the event that aspects of a protocol cannot be agreed upon, then the published protocol will allow for flexibility in its implementation.

• ISCET will maintain an open source repository of code for ISCET-compliant protocols to enable them to be run on all major eyetrackers.

• ISCET also intends to define a standard open file format for clinical eyetracking data to enable data sharing between devices.

*ISCET does not intend to dictate how clinicians should perform their work, but provide a minimal set of defaults suited to most situations ("all else being equal"). It is hoped that this will lead to increased freedom of patient movement between test centers, make it easier for new clinicians to enter the field, and provide opportunities for data sharing and meta-analyses.

2. Provide a unified voice for clinicians working with eye trackers

Clinical use of eyetracking is still relatively rare. ISCET provides a voice for existing clinicians, and guidance to new clinicians seeking to enter the field. Specific issues that ISCET intends to address include:

• Lack of certification allowing eyetrackers to be used in clinical settings

• Lack of 'fee codes' to allow clinicians to claim for performing eye tracking tests

3. Maintain reference datasets

Deviations from 'normal' eye tracking data can only be interpreted with reference to a normative dataset. Standardized international protocols provide the ability to pool data from multiple sites to determine normative ranges. The extent to which individual sites/hardware may also require local normative datasets is yet to be determined.

Ongoing work

Current efforts (as of 2024) are focused on characterising existing patterns of international clinical eye tracker usage in order to better understand the clinicians that ISCET represents, and to set priorities for the development of standards.

Recordings and notes from all previous ISCET meetings are available here.

Structure

ISCET is open to anyone with an interest in clinical eye tracking, and all decisions made are based on the majority present at any given meeting. To get involved, please join the mailing group and dial into a meeting. Hopefully, this bottom-up approach will encourage wide participation and ensure the direction of ISCET is representative of all those with an interest in the future of clinical eye tracking.

All meetings (to date) have been held online. Due to the international nature of the society and the need to provide meeting times suitable to all, the society is organised according to three regions:

• Asia/Australasia

• Europe/Africa

• The Americas

Meetings times are rotated as suitable to each region, with a local host.

Organising committee

The role of the committee is to coordinate the society, facilitate collaboration and ensure the views of the entire international eye tracking community are represented by ISCET. The committee hold additional meetings (recordings can be found at the bottom of the Meetings page). Decisions on ISCET standard protocols are not made at committee meetings – these always involve the wider group. Current committee members are:

Membership

In time, ISCET expects to move to a formal membership structure. For now, you can get involved by joining the mailing group.