Webcam Eye Tracking Studies Using Labvanced

After validating webcam eye tracking against an EyeLink system in the lab, researchers built a fully remote version of the reading task in Labvanced to test whether the same webcam-based method holds up when participants use their own devices at home.

Serrano-Carot, M., Angele, B., Xu, H., & Vasilev, M. R. (2025). Webcams Can Be Used to Study Eye Movements during Reading. PsyArXiv.

Participants viewed images of urban environments while Labvanced's webcam eye tracking captured their gaze, letting researchers relate fine-grained looking behavior at specific scene features to emotional appraisal of built versus natural elements, at scale and without specialized in-lab hardware.

Sander, I., Mazumder, R., Fingerhut, J., Parada, F. J., Koselevs, A., & Gramann, K. (2024). Beyond built density: From coarse to fine-grained analyses of emotional experiences in urban environments. Journal of Environmental Psychology.

This head-to-head comparison ran the identical infant audio-visual synchrony task both in the lab and via Labvanced's webcam eye tracking, finding no difference in technical issues or attrition between settings, an independent validation of the platform's infant eye-tracking capability.

Banki, A., de Eccher, M., Falschlehner, L., Hoehl, S., & Markova, G. (2022). Comparing Online Webcam- and Laboratory-Based Eye-Tracking for the Assessment of Infants' Audio-Visual Synchrony Perception. Frontiers in Psychology.

Using webcam eye tracking across three binary-choice tasks, this study found that harder decisions produce more eye dwells and longer final dwells, revealing how gaze dynamics expose decision difficulty before a choice is even made.

Bertrand, J. K., Zuk, A. A. O., & Chapman, C. S. (2023). Continuous Measures of Decision-Difficulty Captured Remotely: II. Webcam eye-tracking reveals early decision processing. bioRxiv.

Forty young English learners of French watched multimodal vocabulary materials while Labvanced's built-in webcam eye tracking recorded their gaze in real time, without any external eye-tracking hardware, finding that attention to non-verbal elements predicted vocabulary learning.

Zhang, P., & Zhang, S. (2025). Attention and learning in L2 multimodality: A webcam-based eye-tracking study. Language Learning & Technology.