Open AccessEye-tracking Recordings as Data in EMCA Studies
Author(s) -
Elisabeth Dalby Kristiansen,
Gitte Rasmussen
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
social interaction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2446-3620
DOI - 10.7146/si.v4i4.121776
Subject(s) - eye tracking , conversation , set (abstract data type) , tracking (education) , computer science , action (physics) , eye movement , conversation analysis , data science , human–computer interaction , artificial intelligence , psychology , communication , pedagogy , physics , quantum mechanics , programming language
The article contributes to the ongoing discussion of the potential of using eye-tracking recordings in ethnomethodological conversation analysis (EMCA) by exploring to what extent and under what circumstances such recordings may be useful for EMCA studies of multimodal social interaction. For this purpose, it analyzes examples of social conduct recorded by one video camera and one set of eye-tracking glasses. The article concludes that while eye-tracking recordings may, in some specific cases, provide new analytic possibilities for studying social action, they are by no means indispensable for EMCA research in multimodal social interaction, and making use of mobile eye-tracking equipment and recordings may compromise the data as well as the analytic procedure.