A Novel Slip-Kalman Filter to Track the Progression of Reading Through Eye-Gaze Measurements

In this paper, we propose an approach to track the progression of eye-gaze while reading a block of text on computer screen. The proposed approach will help to accurately quantify reading, e.g., identifying the lines of text that were read/skipped and estimating the time spent on each line, based on commercially available inexpensive eye-tracking devices. The proposed approach is based on a novel slip Kalman filter that is custom designed to track the progression of reading. The performance of the proposed method is demonstrated using 25 pages eye-tracking data collected using a commercial desk-mounted eye-tracking device.