Attendees

12 people attended the meeting.

Notes

Understanding clinical use of eye trackers

• Use of eye trackers in the following clinical disorders/disciplines was mentioned:

  • Eye movement disorders (e.g. nystagmus)

  • Concussion (lots of recent products being developed)

  • Neuropsychology

  • Dizziness

  • Orthoptics

  • Optometry

  • Reading disability

  • Audiology

  • Ophthalmology

  • Neuro-ophthalmology

However, this may not be an exhaustive list and further work is required to ensure no disciplines are excluded. Current ISCET membership may not reflect actual international use.

• Could approach manufacturers to determine full extent of clinical eye tracker use

  • However, clinical uses are currently 'off-label' for many eye trackers so this may not reflect actual use

• After identifying a list of clinical disciplines, ISCET could approach professional clinical bodies and ask a representative from each to attend a meeting to determine actual scope of usage and/or distribute a questionnaire to their members

  • Gemma Arblaster will determine whether University of Sheffield is able to provide ethical approval as host institution for a questionnaire study on current international eye tracker usage; results may be publishable.

  • Matt Dunn will create a collaborative document to enable members to propose suggestions for organisations to approach and questions to ask regarding eye tracker usage

Remit of ISCET

• Suggested that ISCET add to its remit "maintainence of reference datasets" (i.e. 'normative data')

• Unlikely that ISCET would want to be involved in signing people off as competent in techniques (too resource-intensive; providing guidance/standard protocols is enough)

Structure of ISCET

• Moving toward a committee structure may be worthwhile

• To be more inclusive of collegues in the Americas, a a third meeting time should be added, mirroring ISCEV's structure of international representation. The three regions are therefore:

  • Europe/Africa

  • Asia/Australia

  • Americas

• Noted that only 12 people in attendance at this meeting (compare to 70 at first meeting). Discussed:

  • Is it too difficult to sign up to the mailing list / find the website?

  • Is the time slot not amenable to clinicians?

  • Consider alternating the day of the week

  • Consider advertising via more channels and encouraging current members to spread the word (provide link to website and sign-up to mail group)

Next meeting

The next meeting will be arranged at a time to suit the Americas and will focus on:

1. Identifying representative/professional clinical bodies to approach to (a) determine current international eye tracker usage and (b) expand ISCET membership

2. Formalising committees for each of the three regions (Europe/Africa, Asia/Australia, Americas)

3. Formalise ISCET's purpose (currently three aims proposed):

   1. Maintain guidelines

   2. Maintain reference datasets

   3. Represent the clinical eye tracking sector

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