11.11.2025GIVA organized the ETIZ meet-up

Armand Kapaj and Sara Fabrikant from the GIVA group organized the Eye Tracking Interest Group Zurich (ETIZ) meet-up on October 20, at the Department of Geography. ETIZ brings together researchers from UZH, ETH, and beyond, who utilize eye-tracking devices in their research. The very well-attended event featured a wide range of presentations and was followed by a networking apero. Here is the list of ETIZ talks:

• Jiaona Hu (PhD student at GIVA) presented her previous work conducted at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, titled "Effect of Fractals on Psychological and Neural Responses to Interior Environments: A Combined VR–fNIRS–Eye Tracking Study."

• Sergio Bazzurri (PhD student at GIVA) presented the work "Investigating the effects of emotional narratives in the visual communication of climate change uncertainty with Eye Tracking (ET) and Electrodermal Activity (EDA)," which is part of his PhD project.

• Deborah Jakobi (PhD student at the Department of Computational Linguistics, UZH) presented the work "MultiplEYE and  EyeStore: A large-scale multi-lab initiative to collect a multilingual eyetracking-while-reading corpus."

• Carlson Büth (Research Software Engineer at the Department of Computational Linguistics, UZH) presented the work "OpenEye: Building an eye-tracking preprocessing pipeline."

• Alessandro Pierro (M.Sc. student at GIVA) presented his ongoing master's thesis project, "Evaluating the impact of heat exposure on spatial learning during a virtual reality navigation study in an urban environment."