Blickshift GmbH

Blickshift GmbH develops software for capturing and analysing eye-tracking data. Its main product, Blickshift Analytics, grew out of years of research into visual analytics and is aimed at researchers who need to make sense of large recordings of eye movement alongside other sensor data.

What Blickshift GmbH offers

• Blickshift Analytics — hardware-independent analysis software with dynamic areas of interest, more than 20 built-in statistical metrics, heat maps and scan paths.
• Pattern search — finding similar eye movement behaviour across participants or recordings.
• Recording software — capturing data streams and video from several sources in sync.
• Data analysis service — the team analyses a client's data to their requirements.
• Integration and export — use of existing Python scripts, data labelling, correlation of sensor data and export to standard statistics tools.

Who it works with

Academic and applied researchers, for example in visualisation research, traffic and driving studies, and sports science. Users quoted include researchers at Karlsruhe, the AMPEL lab at Aalen University and Harvard University.

Key facts

• Hardware support: works with data from different eye trackers, including Pupil Labs devices
• Co-founder: Michael Raschke
• Research work: developed the VR game AbracaData within the PRETINA research project