Toward Gaze-assisted Developer Tools
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Kuang, Peng; Soderberg, Emma; Niehorster, Diederick C.; Host, Martin
- Source
- 2023 IEEE/ACM 45th International Conference on Software Engineering: New Ideas and Emerging Results (ICSE-NIER) ICSE-NIER Software Engineering: New Ideas and Emerging Results (ICSE-NIER), 2023 IEEE/ACM 45th International Conference on. :49-54 May, 2023
- Subject
- Computing and Processing
Systematics
Gaze tracking
Software
Behavioral sciences
Task analysis
Software engineering
eye tracking
gaze behavior
developer tools
software engineering
mapping study
- Language
- ISSN
- 2832-7632
Many crucial activities in software development are linked to gaze and can potentially benefit from gaze-assisted developer tools. However, despite the maturity of eye trackers and the potential for such tools, we see very few studies of practitioners. Here, we present a systematic mapping study to examine recent developments in the field with a focus on the experimental setup of eye-tracking studies in software engineering research. We identify two gaps regarding studies of practitioners in realistic settings and three challenges in existing experimental setups. We present six recommendations for how to steer the research community toward gaze-assisted developer tools that can benefit practitioners.