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Publications
2022
Scholarly publications
Hessels, R. S., Benjamins, J. S., Niehorster, D. C., van Doorn, A. J., Koenderink, J. J., Holleman, G. A., de Kloe, Y. J. R., Valtakari, N. V., van Hal, S., & Hooge, I. T. C. (2022). Eye contact avoidance in crowds: A large wearable eye-tracking study. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 84(8), 2623-2640. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-022-02541-z
Hooge, I. T. C., Niehorster, D. C., Hessels, R. S., Benjamins, J. S., & Nyström, M. (2022). How robust are wearable eye trackers to slow and fast head and body movements? Behavior Research Methods. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-022-02010-3
Holmqvist, K., Oerbom, S. L., Hooge, I. T. C., Niehorster, D. C., Andersson, R., Benjamins, J. S., Blignaut, P., Chuang, L. L., Dalrymple, K. A., Drieghe, D., Dunn, M. J., Ettinger, U., Fiedler, S., Foulsham, T., van der Geest, J. N., Hansen, D. W., Hutton, S. B., Kasneci, E., Kingstone, A., ... Hessels, R. S. (2022). Eye tracking: empirical foundations for a minimal reporting guideline. Behavior Research Methods. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-021-01762-8
Hooge, I. T. C., Niehorster, D. C., Nyström, M., Andersson, R., & Hessels, R. S. (2022). Fixation classification: how to merge and select fixation candidates. Behavior Research Methods, 54(6), 2765-2776. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-021-01723-1
de Kloe, Y., Hooge, I., Kemner, C., Niehorster, D. C., Nyström, M., & Hessels, R. (2022). Replacing eye trackers in ongoing studies: A comparison of eye-tracking data quality between the Tobii Pro TX300 and the Tobii Pro Spectrum. Infancy, 27(1), 25-45. https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12441
2021
Scholarly publications
Hooge, I. T. C., Niehorster, D. C., Nyström, M., Andersson, R., & Hessels, R. S. (2021). Correction to: “Is human classification by experienced untrained observers a gold standard in fixation detection?”. Behavior Research Methods, 53(2), 943-944. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-021-01537-1
Valtakari, N. V., Hooge, I. T. C., Viktorsson, C., Nyström, P., Falck-Ytter, T., & Hessels, R. S. (2021). Eye tracking in human interaction: Possibilities and limitations. Behavior Research Methods, 53(4), 1592-1608. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-020-01517-x
Hessels, R. S., & Hooge, I. T. C. (2021). Dogmatic modes of science. Perception, 50(11), 913-916. https://doi.org/10.1177/03010066211047826
Hooge, I. T. C., Niehorster, D. C., Hessels, R. S., Cleveland, D., & Nyström, M. (2021). The pupil-size artefact (PSA) across time, viewing direction, and different eye trackers. Behavior Research Methods, 53(5), 1986-2006. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-020-01512-2
Hessels, R. S., Benjamins, J. S., van Doorn, A. J., Koenderink, J. J., & Hooge, I. T. C. (2021). Perception of the Potential for Interaction in Social Scenes. i-Perception, 12(5), 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1177/20416695211040237
Safavi, S., Kaya, H., Hessels, R. S., Najafian, M., & Hanekamp, S. (2021). 2nd ICMI Workshop on Bridging Social Sciences and AI for Understanding Child Behaviour. 862-863. https://doi.org/10.1145/3462244.3480979
Holleman, G. A., Hooge, I. T. C., Huijding, J., Deković, M., Kemner, C., & Hessels, R. S. (2021). Gaze and speech behavior in parent–child interactions: The role of conflict and cooperation. Current Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-021-02532-7
Professional publications
Janssen, C., Donker, S., Hessels, R., Hooge, I., Kenemans, L., & van der Stigchel, S. (2021). De invloed van frequente aanduiding van maximumsnelheid boven de weg op het gedrag van de weggebruiker: literatuuronderzoek. Rijkswaterstaat. https://puc.overheid.nl/rijkswaterstaat/doc/PUC_641182_31/
2020
Scholarly publications
Niehorster, D. C., Santini, T., Hessels, R. S., Hooge, I. T. C., Kasneci, E., & Nyström, M. (2020). The impact of slippage on the data quality of head-worn eye trackers. Behavior Research Methods, 52(3), 1140-1160. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-019-01307-0
Jongerius, C., Hessels, R. S., Romijn, J. A., Smets, E. M. A., & Hillen, M. A. (2020). The Measurement of Eye Contact in Human Interactions: A Scoping Review. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 44(3), 363-389. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10919-020-00333-3
Hessels, R. S. (2020). How does gaze to faces support face-to-face interaction? A review and perspective. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 27(5), 856-881. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-020-01715-w
Zondergeld, J. J., Scholten, R. H. H., Vreede, B. M. I., Hessels, R. S., Pijl, A. G., Buizer-Voskamp, J. E., Rasch, M., Lange, O. A., & Veldkamp, C. L. S. (2020). FAIR, safe and high-quality data: The data infrastructure and accessibility of the YOUth cohort study. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 45, [100834]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2020.100834
Onland-Moret, N. C., Buizer-Voskamp, J. E., Albers, M. E. W. A., Brouwer, R. M., Buimer, E. E. L., Hessels, R. S., de Heus, R., Huijding, J., Junge, C. M. M., Mandl, R. C. W., Pas, P., Vink, M., van der Wal, J. J. M., Hulshoff Pol, H. E., & Kemner, C. (2020). The YOUth study: Rationale, design, and study procedures. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 46, [100868]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2020.100868
Hessels, R. S., Benjamins, J. S., van Doorn, A. J., Koenderink, J. J., Holleman, G. A., & Hooge, I. T. C. (2020). Looking behavior and potential human interactions during locomotion. Journal of Vision, 20(10). https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.20.10.5
Kaya, H., Hessels, R. S., Najafian, M., Hanekamp, S., & Safavi, S. (2020). Bridging Social Sciences and AI for Understanding Child Behaviour. 868-870. Paper presented at International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) 2020, Utrecht, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1145/3382507.3419745
Niehorster, D. C., Hessels, R. S., & Benjamins, J. S. (2020). GlassesViewer: Open-source software for viewing and analyzing data from the Tobii Pro Glasses 2 eye tracker. Behavior Research Methods, 52(3), 1244-1253. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-019-01314-1
Hessels, R. S., Niehorster, D. C., Holleman, G. A., Benjamins, J. S., & Hooge, I. T. C. (2020). Wearable Technology for “Real-World Research”: Realistic or Not? Perception, 49(6), 611-615. https://doi.org/10.1177/0301006620928324
Holleman, G. A., Hooge, I. T. C., Kemner, C., & Hessels, R. S. (2020). The Reality of “Real-Life” Neuroscience: A Commentary on Shamay-Tsoory and Mendelsohn (2019). Perspectives on Psychological Science, 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691620917354
Holleman, G. A., Hooge, I. T. C., Kemner, C., & Hessels, R. S. (2020). The ‘real-world approach' and its problems: A critique of the term ecological validity. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 1-12. [721]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00721
Holleman, G. A., Hessels, R. S., Kemner, C., & Hooge, I. T. C. (2020). Implying social interaction and its influence on gaze behavior to the eyes. PLoS One, 15(2), 1-27. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0229203
Hessels, R. S., van Doorn, A., Benjamins, J., Holleman, G. A., & Hooge, I. T. C. (2020). Task-related gaze control in human crowd navigation. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 82, 2482–2501. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-019-01952-9
2019
Scholarly publications
Hessels, R. S., & Hooge, I. T. C. (2019). Eye tracking in developmental cognitive neuroscience – The good, the bad and the ugly. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 40, [100710]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2019.100710
Jones, E. J. H., Mason, L., Begum Ali, J., van den Boomen, C., Braukmann, R., Cauvet, E., Demurie, E., Hessels, R. S., Ward, E. K., Hunnius, S., Bolte, S., Tomalski, P., Kemner, C., Warreyn, P., Roeyers, H., Buitelaar, J., Falck-Ytter, T., Charman, T., & Johnson, M. H. (2019). Eurosibs: Towards robust measurement of infant neurocognitive predictors of autism across Europe. Infant Behavior and Development, 57, [101316]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2019.03.007
van der Stigchel, S., Hessels, R. S., van Elst, J. C., & Kemner, C. (2019). Correction to: The disengagement of visual attention in the gap paradigm across adolescence. Experimental Brain Research, 237(8). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-019-05594-z
Hooge, I. T. C., Hessels, R. S., & Nyström, M. (2019). Do pupil-based binocular video eye trackers reliably measure vergence? Vision Research, 156, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2019.01.004
Geeraerts, S. B., Hessels, R. S., Van Der Stigchel, S., Huijding, J., Endendijk, J. J., Van Den Boomen, C., Kemner, C., & Deković, M. (2019). Individual differences in visual attention and self-regulation: A multimethod longitudinal study from infancy to toddlerhood. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 180, 104-112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2018.11.012
Hessels, R. S., Holleman, G. A., Kingstone, A., Hooge, I. T. C., & Kemner, C. (2019). Gaze allocation in face-to-face communication is affected primarily by task structure and social context, not stimulus-driven factors. Cognition, 184(March), 28-43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2018.12.005
Hooge, I. T. C., Holleman, G. A., Haukes, N. C., & Hessels, R. S. (2019). Gaze tracking accuracy in humans: One eye is sometimes better than two. Behavior Research Methods, 51(6), 2712-2721. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-018-1135-3
2018
Scholarly publications
Hessels, R. S., Holleman, G. A., Cornelissen, T. H. W., Hooge, I. T. C., & Kemner, C. (2018). Eye contact takes two – autistic and social anxiety traits predict gaze behavior in dyadic interaction. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, 9(2). https://doi.org/10.5127/jep.062917
Hessels, R. S., Niehorster, D. C., Nyström, M., Andersson, R., & Hooge, I. T. C. (2018). Is the eye-movement field confused about fixations and saccades? A survey among 124 researchers. Royal Society Open Science, 5(8). https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.180502
Hessels, R. S., Benjamins, J. S., Cornelissen, T. H. W., & Hooge, I. T. C. (2018). A Validation of Automatically-Generated Areas-of-Interest in Videos of a Face for Eye-Tracking Research. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, [1367 ]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01367
Benjamins, J. S., Hessels, R. S., & Hooge, I. T. C. (2018). GazeCode: Open-source software for manual mapping of mobile eye-tracking data. In Proceedings - ETRA 2018: 2018 ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications (Vol. Part F137344). [a54] Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3204493.3204568
Braukmann, R., Ward, E., Hessels, R. S., Bekkering, H., Buitelaar, J. K., & Hunnius, S. (2018). Action prediction in 10-month-old infants at high and low familial risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 49, 34-46. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rasd.2018.02.004
Hooge, I. T. C., Niehorster, D. C., Nyström, M., Andersson, R., & Hessels, R. S. (2018). Is human classification by experienced untrained observers a gold standard in fixation detection? Behavior Research Methods, 50, 1864-1881. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-017-0955-x
2017
Scholarly publications
Hessels, R. S. (2017). Toward early markers for autism spectrum disorder using eye tracking. Journal of Cognitive Education and Psychology, 16(3), 310-312. https://doi.org/10.1891/1945-8959.16.3.310
Van der Stigchel, S., Hessels, R. S., van Elst, J. C., & Kemner, C. (2017). The disengagement of visual attention in the gap paradigm across adolescence. Experimental Brain Research, 235(12), 3585-3592. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-017-5085-2
Hessels, R. S., Cornelissen, T. H. W., Hooge, I. T. C., & Kemner, C. (2017). Gaze Behavior to Faces During Dyadic Interaction. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71(3), 226-242. https://doi.org/10.1037/cep0000113
Hessels, R. S. (2017). Toward early markers for Autism Spectrum Disorder using eye tracking. [Doctoral thesis 1 (Research UU / Graduation UU), Universiteit Utrecht]. Utrecht University.
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Cousijn, J., Hessels, R. S., van der Stigchel, S., & Kemner, C. (2017). Evaluation of the Psychometric Properties of the Gap‐Overlap Task in 10‐Month‐Old Infants. Infancy, 22(4), 417-579. https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12185
Niehorster, D. C., Cornelissen, T. H. W., Holmqvist, K., Hooge, I. T. C., & Hessels, R. S. (2017). What to expect from your remote eye-tracker when participants are unrestrained. Behavior Research Methods. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-017-0863-0
2016
Scholarly publications
Hessels, R. S., Niehorster, D. C., Kemner, C., & Hooge, I. T. C. (2016). Noise-robust fixation detection in eye movement data: Identification by two-means clustering (I2MC). Behavior Research Methods.
Hessels, R. S., Hooge, I. T. C., & Kemner, C. (2016). An in-depth look at saccadic search in infancy. Journal of Vision, 16(8). https://doi.org/10.1167/16.8.10
2015
Scholarly publications
Hessels, R. S., Andersson, R., Hooge, I. T. C., Nyström, M., & Kemner, C. (2015). Consequences of Eye Color, Positioning, and Head Movement for Eye-Tracking Data Quality in Infant Research. Infancy, 20(6), 601-633. https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12093
Hessels, R. S., Cornelissen, T. H. W., Kemner, C., & Hooge, I. T. C. (2015). Qualitative tests of remote eyetracker recovery and performance during head rotation. Behavior Research Methods, 47(3), 848-859. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-014-0507-6
Hessels, R. S., Kemner, C., van den Boomen, C., & Hooge, I. T. C. (2015). The area-of-interest problem in eyetracking research: A noise-robust solution for face and sparse stimuli. Behavior Research Methods, 48(4), 1694-1712. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-015-0676-y
Other output
Hessels, R. S., Cornelissen, T. H. W., Kemner, C., & Hooge, I. T. C. (2015). Remote eyetracker recovery and performance during head rotation. Journal of Eye Movement Research, 8(4), 238-238.
2014
Scholarly publications
Hessels, R. S., Hooge, I. T. C., Snijders, T. M., & Kemner, C. (2014). Is There a Limit to the Superiority of Individuals with ASD in Visual Search? Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 44(2), 443-451. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-013-1886-8
2012
Scholarly publications
Paffen, C. L. E., Hessels, R. S., & van der Stigchel, S. (2012). Erratum to: Interocular conflict attracts attention (Atten Percept Psychophys, DOI 10.3758/s13414-011-0256-x). Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 74(5). https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-012-0299-7
Paffen, C. L. E., Hessels, R. S., & Van der Stigchel, S. (2012). Interocular conflict attracts attention. Attention, perception, & psychophysics, 74, 251-256. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-011-0256-x
2011
Other output
Paffen, C. L. E., Hessels, R. S., & Van der Stigchel, S. (2011). Interocular conflict attenuates change-blindness. Journal of Vision, 11(11), 317. https://doi.org/10.1167/11.11.317