iTrace Toolkit Lexicon

To keep UI element text and documentation language consistent, this wiki page contains a glossary of terminology used when discussing the iTrace Toolkit. Some terminology will be shared among the various applications and will be indicated as "universal" terms.

Lexicon

iTrace Toolkit

• data filter - a request for a subset of gaze data from a particular group of tasks, participants, sessions, or any combination therein defined by an end user
• analysis - any form of data processing/manipulation involving the results of a filter
• visualization - any form of data filter or analysis result representation featuring a predominantly graphical representation
• srcML file - a markup format applied to source code that provides syntactic and line/column positional information for all textual tokens
• token mapping - an activity to associate textual, syntactic, and positional information from a srcML file with core and plugin data

Universal

• calibration - data collected and used for the purpose of verifying sufficiently accurate operation of an eye tracking device
• recording - an active data collection activity where information is received from a hardware based eye tracking device
• session - a duration of data collection that begins with recording non-calibration eye tracking activity and ends when the recording is stopped
• end user - researcher or individual administering eye tracking data collection
• participant - individual taking part in one or more sessions
• study - a collection of session data defined by the end user and generated by one or more participants
• task - an activity defined by the end user running a study and performed by a participant during one or more sessions
• core data - a collection of session data generated by the iTrace-Core application
• plugin data - a collection of session data contextual information generated by a plugin to supplement core data