GazePlotter: An open-source solution for the automatic generation of scarf plots from eye-tracking data
Michaela Vojtechovska, Stanislav Popelka

TL;DR
GazePlotter is an open-source tool that simplifies creating interactive visualizations of eye-tracking data for researchers and non-programmers.
Contribution
GazePlotter introduces an accessible, browser-based solution for generating customizable scarf plots from raw eye-tracking data without programming.
Findings
GazePlotter processes data from six eye-tracking software tools and generates interactive visualizations with high agreement to proprietary outputs.
The tool supports dynamic AOIs and multiple timeline modes, enabling detailed comparisons across participants and stimuli.
A usability evaluation confirmed successful task completion and positive user feedback from experienced eye-tracking researchers.
Abstract
Eye-tracking is widely used to study perception, learning, and decision-making, yet visualising temporally structured gaze behaviour remains challenging. Scarf plots (also known as sequence charts) help illustrate when and where participants focus attention, but existing tools are often proprietary, static, or require programming expertise. GazePlotter is an open-source, browser-based application designed to lower these barriers. GazePlotter automatically processes raw exports from six eye-tracking software tools, including Tobii Pro Lab and GazePoint Analysis, and generates interactive, customisable scarf plots. It supports dynamic areas of interest (AOIs), multiple timeline modes (absolute, relative, ordinal), and enables side-by-side comparisons across participants, groups, or stimuli. Complementary visualisations—such as bar charts and transition matrices—can be combined within…
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Taxonomy
TopicsGaze Tracking and Assistive Technology · Visual Attention and Saliency Detection · Mind wandering and attention
