In some configurations Tobii exports data in a wide format in which each area of interest (AOIs) is represented by a column and a value of 1 indicates a hit. All columns containing 0 or -1 are irrelevant. By including only hits (1) and rendering data in a long format by ID and AOI (column name), the resulting data is much smaller and more well adapted for further analysis.

The script parses a Tobii eyetracker .tsv output file to produce:

1. an AOIFILE with all AOI hits indexed by an ID (long format)
2. an IDFILE with participant and event information indexed by ID

The data in AOIFILE and IDFILE can be joined using the ID column.

By default the script removes the leading "AOI[" and trailing ""]Hit"" from AOIs. This trimming can be disabled by specifying: -v NOTRIM=1

Column headers can be disabled by specifying: -v NOHEADERS=1

Default filenames are aois.tsv and ids.tsv for AOIs and IDs, respectively. Custom filenames can be specified using -v AOIFILE=custom-aoi.tsv and -v IDFILE=custom-ids.tsv

gawk -f tobii-aoi-wide-to-long.awk exported-tobii-data.tsv

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Kristoffer Winther Balling ([email protected]) & Laura Winther Balling ([email protected])