On this page, you can browse Tobii Pro Lab release notes and check out recent enhancements. Customers with a valid upgrade contract for their Pro Lab license will always have access to new features as soon as they are released. If you are looking for release notes from 2019 and previous years, please go to our Release notes page.
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Screen-based edition, Full edition
Resizing videos has been added to the calibration routine, to be applied as an alternative method for participants who are difficult to calibrate, such as infants. This helps sustain attention to the computer screen and multiple targets, ultimately resulting in increased calibration data quality.
The video will shrink/unshrink to the next points, playing the dual role of attention grabber and calibration target. Gaze data is captured at regular intervals when the calibration video is completely shrunk.
It is also possible to control the animation duration, calibration speed, and the shrinking size in the design stage of your experiment. Results and recalibrations/revalidations are done, as before, in the Calibration Result view.
Screen-based edition, Analyzer edition, Full edition
Enhanced support for more punctuation marks in Asian languages, including the following Unicode characters UTF-16 3002, UTF-16 FF01 and UTF-16 FF1F.
Screen-based edition, Analyzer edition, Full edition
All types of custom TOIs are now integrated into a single tool. Associated medias (filtered based on selected events) can be sorted, renamed, and previewed when double-clicked.
Screen-based edition, Analyzer edition, Full edition
You now have the possibility to bin the eye tracking data with fixed duration time intervals, so that you can analyze the unfolding of a metric over time.
Screen-based edition, Analyzer edition, Full edition
Create aggregated AOIs using tags through the Tag panel or custom logical expressions. This allows you to analyze conditions that exist across multiple stimulus elements. This replaces the Tag panel in Metrics Data selection.
The aggregated data are available for Metrics and Data export, enabling an easier analysis workflow for many experimental paradigms and research questions.
Screen-based edition, Analyzer edition, Full edition
The AOI reading metric: "Go-past duration" has been renamed "Selective regression-path duration".
Full edition, Analyzer edition, Presenter edition
The Text element can be added to the experiment timeline from the toolbar and used either for reading research or to provide instructions to the participant.
In the Text Editor it is possible, as before, to edit all the typical text properties (font, font size, text, and background color, etc.) and allows users to input multi-language text stimulus, with only western languages being fully supported.
Full edition, Analyzer edition, Presenter edition
In the Text Editor you can now preview AOI-boundaries at a character, word, or sentence level. This is particularly useful for researchers using eye tracking in the field of reading research.
Full edition, Analyzer edition
In the AOI tool you can now automatically generate areas of interest (AOIs) at a character, word, or sentence level, and encode AOI meta-information that are relevant for the experiment.
Full edition, Analyzer edition
New metrics are now available in the AOI-based TSV file export format — AOI reading metrics — to allow the users to much quicker calculate and extract many standard reading measures, including first-pass first fixation duration, first-pass duration, regression-path duration, etc.
Full edition, Analyzer edition
The AOI Click metrics (available in the AOI-based TSV file export format) have been updated for all stimuli types to now include both click (‘MouseEvent Down’ event), as well as click & release (‘MouseEvent Down’ + ‘MouseEvent Up’ events) metrics.
Full edition, Analyzer edition, Presenter edition
A new simplified calibration and validation result window is now available.
Full edition, Analyzer edition
In the Custom TOI dialog it is now possible to choose between recording data and mapped data for screen based and scene camera projects. When the radio button for mapped data is chosen, the corresponding snapshots are available for selection as well.
Full edition, Analyzer edition
You can now easily get information about the resolution of your screenshots directly in the Custom TOI dialog. Screenshots are also automatically sorted by type (e.g. manual screenshot, imported screenshot), domain, and resolution, and assigned a corresponding icon.
Full edition, Analyzer edition
You can now import accelerometer, gyroscope and magnetometer data together with your Tobii Pro Glasses 3 recordings and export them in the Data Export. Only available for recordings made with Tobii Pro Glasses 3 firmware versions newer than 1.10.
Full edition, Presenter edition
All participant calibrations are now stored in the software, so you can select the best one to run your experiment with. You can store up to 5 calibrations per subject. Especially useful when needing to calibrate infants.
Full edition, Analyzer edition
In addition to manual (see GIF) and automatic screenshotting, you are now able to import externally captured screenshots to your Custom Web Times of Interest (TOIs) dialogue and use them as backing visual for eye tracking data mapping.
Full edition, Presenter edition
Small icons have been added to the design module to show what "Advance on" options are selected for a certain stimulus.
Full edition, Presenter edition, VR360 edition
A new export format has been added for more detailed post-analysis. Choose the event-based fixation metrics to export one row for every fixation in your study. You can now also select metadata in the new general metrics section, such as participant variables, AOI tags etc. and include them in the export.
Full edition, Analyzer edition
It is now possible to import Tobii Pro Glasses 3 recordings into your Glasses project. Also, you can merge data or combine recordings from both Tobii Pro Glasses 3 and Tobii Pro Glasses 2 into the same project.
Full edition, Presenter edition
The "Advance on gaze" option has been added to the design module to trigger a transition when participants look at a target area. Double-click the stimulus card to open the stimulus editor and edit the target area to suit your study needs. Set your desired presentation screen resolution to ensure correct stimuli display.
Full edition, Analyzer edition
The calibration icon in the Replay mode lets you hide or show the calibration section in the recording with one simple click.
Full edition, Analyzer edition, Presenter edition, VR360 edition
Options for Renaming your projects or removing them from the list are now available in a context menu. Simply right-click to rename or remove projects from the list of existing projects.
Full edition, Presenter edition
You can now conduct pilot experiments with the Mouse Tracker option at 60Hz or 250Hz.
Full edition, Analyzer edition, VR360 edition
A new export format has been added - the AOI-based metrics - to better support the researchers in the statistical analysis stage, by structuring the data in a single row for every AOI, for every interval.
Full edition, Presenter edition
The new screen-capture functionality enables smooth scrolling for web pages.
Full edition, Presenter edition
Note: Make sure that your presentation screen scaling is set to 100% before starting the recording.
Full edition, Presenter edition
The Mouse Tracker option adds the ability to record simulated eye-tracking data when an eye tracker is not available. It can be used during pilot experiments when you don't have access to an eye tracker to collect and analyze the data that would previously be bound to your hardware.
Full edition, Analyzer edition, Presenter edition
Assisted mapping has now been enabled for Screen-based projects with recordings containing Web- and screen recording elements, as well as Scene Camera projects, to make data preparation more efficient.
The assisted mapping can be used in combination with external screenshots and with a variety of stimuli types. Additionally, the assisted mapping supports the use of full-length screenshots from mobile devices for scene camera projects.
Full edition, Presenter edition, VR360 edition
Informed consent is a prerequisite for a subject’s participation in human research. Sufficient information must be provided so that a participant can make an informed decision about whether to enroll in a study, or to continue participation.
When recording gaze data with Pro Lab, it's the experimenters' responsibility to acquire consent from the participant to record, store and process their data. We added the option to save or discard a recording after it is finished depending on the participant's consent decision (please see also the new Eye Tracking Data Transparency Policy by Tobii Group).
Full edition, Presenter edition
A small improvement allows you now to capture a screenshot manually using the Capture screenshot button in the Moderator tool or by pressing F8 during the recording.
The automatic screenshot functionality can now be turned off for faster transitions between web pages.
Full edition, Analyzer edition, VR360 edition
The Metrics and Data exports are significantly faster than in the previous version and collapsible sections and a Select All option have been now added.
Full edition, Analyzer edition, VR360 edition
Byte Order Marks (BOM) are removed in .tsv flags. If you have scripts that rely on this flag, be sure to update them accordingly, in order to interpret the text correctly.
Full edition, Analyzer edition, Presenter edition, VR360 edition
A new option is now available to support with the backup of projects before migrating to a later version of Tobii Pro Lab.
Full edition, Analyzer edition, Presenter edition
New user-oriented export and sharing options are now available. These export types are tailored for distributed data collection, distributed coding and merging of coded data into one project. There is also an option for full project backup.
Full edition, Presenter edition
The video or audio export together with stimuli presentation has become more flexible and is now also available for External Presenter projects.
Full edition, Analyzer edition, Presenter edition
A small, but useful improvement allows you to snap the time needle to events in the Replay mode using Ctrl + Arrow or Ctrl + Click on your keyboard.
Full edition, Presenter edition
Manual mapping has been enabled for Screen Recording and Web stimuli, as well as for Scene Camera projects to make data preparation more efficient. The gaze data mapping in Pro Lab lets you map gaze from a video frame onto an image (Snapshot). You can map entire fixations or individual gaze points onto a snapshot with just one click.
Additional features provide stability improvements to Assisted mapping (previously named Automatic mapping).
Full edition, Presenter edition
Starting with version 1.138, changing screenshots can be done by cloning Automatic Web TOI and you can now easily navigate to the URL used in Automatic Web TOIs. Advance on time feature is now also available.
Full edition, Analyzer edition
Added option to merge "Unknown" events with surrounding saccades in order to deal with artifacts from head movements and post-saccadic oscillations.
Full edition, Presenter edition
Now you can copy an instruction element and change the text without affecting the original version.
Full edition, Presenter edition
Now you can adjust the playback speed for recordings that use Participant Camera and Microphone for more in-depth analysis.
For release notes from 2019 and previous years please go to our Release notes page
