The training school will take place from July 7 to 9, 2025, in Zagreb, Croatia, at the University of Zagreb’s Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences.
The training school will bring together individuals who are planning to collect data for the MultiplEYE Eye
tracking-while-reading Corpus (see https://multipleye.eu/core-data-collection/) in their lab. The goal is to
provide hands-on training and address open questions to ensure high data quality and a maximal degree of consistency in the experimental procedures across different labs.
This training school will prepare participants to contribute to the MultiplEYE Corpus and is targeted at researchers, students, and lab assistants who will be conducting the experiment. The school will include both theoretical content and, primarily, practical hands-on eye-tracking sessions (using EyeLink devices), providing a detailed overview of the entire MultiplEYE data collection procedure. Participants will be guided through every step of the process, from participant briefing and demographic questionnaire to the eye-tracking-while-reading experiment and the psychometric tests. Additionally, participants will be familiarized with best practices, as well as practical tips and tricks for running eye-tracking experiments (calibration, validation, dominant eye testing, etc.) from a general perspective.
The detailed agenda will be published on the MultiplEYE website (https://multipleye.eu) in the coming days.
Prerequisites for Participation:
- The stimuli (texts and comprehension questions) and experiment instructions for the respective language must be finalized before the training school.
- Participants must be planning to collect data in their lab.
- Participants must have read the Experimenter Script and the Data Collection Guidelines before the training school.
Please note that even Master’s students are eligible to apply for this training school. There is a limited number of places eligible for reimbursement by COST. Note also that priority will be given to less experienced members who will collect the data for MultiplEYE and fulfill the criteria outlined above.
If you are interested in attending, please email the completed application form and a support letter from the head of your lab to multipleye.2022@gmail.com (subject: “TS Zagreb application <your name>”). The application form includes personal details and a brief motivation statement, while the support letter must confirm your active involvement in MultiplEYE data collection and clearly describe your role (e.g., conducting the experiment, supervising lab assistants, preparing stimuli, etc.) The selection will be based on the letter of motivation, taking into account geographic and gender balance, and inclusiveness of Early Career Investigators. Priority will be given to the applications coming from the ITC. The list of participants selected for reimbursement will be announced after the application deadline.
Applications must be submitted by June 10, 2025.
Formal invitations will be sent out to the selected participants via the e-COST platform. Therefore, it is obligatory
that you have an e-COST profile!
According to the COST rules, all participants that are eligible for reimbursement are expected to initially pay the
expenses themselves and provide evidence of expenses incurred via the e-COST platform. Participants will be
reimbursed after the training school. Please read the latest version of the Travel Reimbursement Rules carefully
for more details on reimbursement upon the completion of the event.