Can Tobii Pro Lab Analyze Reading Behavior and Automatically Generate Areas of Interest (AOIs)?

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Yes, one of the most sophisticated reading analysis toolkits found in commercial eye tracking software is included in Tobii Pro Lab. Dedicated text containers and automated reading workflows created especially for psycholinguistics, reading research, education, language acquisition, dyslexia research, and cognitive psychology were introduced in recent versions.

Automated Areas of Interest (AOIs)

Instead of manually drawing hundreds of Areas of Interest around every word, Tobii Pro Lab can automatically generate AOIs based on:

  • Individual characters

  • Words

  • Sentences

  • User-defined text units

This automation significantly reduces experiment preparation time while ensuring consistent AOI placement across participants and stimuli.

Reading Metrics

Researchers can calculate specialized reading metrics such as:

  • Fixation duration per word

  • Regressions

  • Skipping behavior

  • First-pass reading time

  • Gaze duration

  • Rereading behavior

  • Total reading time

Integrated Reading Analysis

Because these analyses are integrated directly into the software, researchers no longer need to export gaze coordinates to third-party tools simply to perform reading analyses.

Research Applications

The reading analysis workflow is specifically designed for:

  • Psycholinguistics

  • Reading research

  • Education

  • Language acquisition

  • Dyslexia research

  • Cognitive psychology

Summary

With specialized text containers and automated Areas of Interest (AOIs) that may be created based on individual characters, words, sentences, and user-defined text units, Tobii Pro Lab offers sophisticated reading analysis capabilities. Without exporting gaze coordinates to external software, researchers can compute metrics such as fixation duration per word, regressions, skipping behavior, first-pass reading time, gaze duration, rereading behavior, and total reading time directly within Tobii Pro Lab.

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