Using Eye Movements to Understand how Security Screeners Search for Threats in X-Ray Baggage

Authors

Nick Donnelly, Liverpool Hope University, UK
Alex Muhl-Richardson, University of Cambridge
Hayward J. Godwin, University of Southampton
Kyle R. Cave, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Publication Date

2019

Journal or Book Title

Vision

Abstract

There has been an increasing drive to understand failures in searches for weapons and explosives in X-ray baggage screening. Tracking eye movements during the search has produced new insights into the guidance of attention during the search, and the identification of targets once they are fixated. Here, we review the eye-movement literature that has emerged on this front over the last fifteen years, including a discussion of the problems that real-world searchers face when trying to detect targets that could do serious harm to people and infrastructure.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.3390/vision3020024

Volume

3

Issue

2

License

UMass Amherst Open Access Policy

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Recommended Citation

Donnelly, Nick; Muhl-Richardson, Alex; Godwin, Hayward J.; and Cave, Kyle R., "Using Eye Movements to Understand how Security Screeners Search for Threats in X-Ray Baggage" (2019). Vision. 31.
https://doi.org/10.3390/vision3020024