Attendees

Five people attended the meeting.

Notes

The following points were raised:

Survey of current clinical eye tracker use

• Consider using focus groups rather than (or in addition to) questionnaire, particularly for groups (such as manufacturers) for whom the structured clinical questions may not make sense.

• Consider arranging an ARVO Special Interest Group (SIG) as a place to run focus groups.

ISCET standards

• How can ISCET know whether equipment that claims to provide an 'ISCET-compliant' protocol actually works? Matt will ask Ruth Hamilton (president of ISCEV) how they handle this.

• ISCET should publish open source code to run ISCET protocols so that users do not need to wait until ISCET-compliant protocols are integrated into commercial hardware (which could take many years).

• It is likely that AI-based event detection algorithms will become more prevalent in the future. It is noted that it could be difficult to define exactly how these work – need to look into how ISCET could publish an open standard based on AI classifiers.

• When developing ISCET standards, if there are aspects of a protocol that cannot be agreed upon, it would be acceptable for the published standard to provide flexibility in that aspect of the protocol.

• When developing ISCET standards, all contributors should declare both financial interests and whether they are the author of any of the research upon which the standard is based.

Broadening membership

• Involvement of manufacturers is useful, but we should involve as many manufacturers as possible to minimise bias.

Organising committee

• There is now a full organising committee (these are caretaker roles while the society continues to grow, and all positions will be ceded when a threshold is reached (a date and/or number of members) to be opened up to people being voted in.

  • Amanda Douglass (Deakin University) volunteered for the role of regional coordinator for Asia/Australia.

  • Rasha Sameer Moustafa (Dar El-Oyoun Hospital) is confirmed as regional coordinator for Europe/Africa.

  • Siyuan Chen (University of New South Wales) volunteered for the role of spokesperson.

    • One of the roles of the spokesperson will be to maintain a list of distribution lists on which to promote ISCET's activities in collaboration with regional coordinators.

    • Siyuan will be introduced to Mario Giardini who has offered to help with increasing ISCET's web presence, potentially through setting up a unique domain.

Next meeting

• From now on the committee will handle some procedural items at separate meetings – all formal committee meetings/notes will be publicly available.

• The next main meeting will focus on finalising the protocol for the survey of current clinical eye tracker use

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