Fact · Typing and writing speed
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The gaze study compared eye gaze with the typed character for 51 participants as they typed.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“From the dataset, we compute the distance between eye gaze and the caret location of 51 participants as they type.”
The Eye of the Typer: A Benchmark and Analysis of Gaze Behavior during Typing, Alexandra Papoutsaki et al., Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications (ETRA 2018), 2018, Abstract and results.
Open the original- What it measures
- A lab dataset recorded with a high-precision eye tracker, webcam video, and keypress logs.
- What it does not show
- The study measures gaze position relative to key presses. It does not measure the share of time spent looking at the keyboard.