Art Education and Expertise An Eye Tracking Study

Abstract

The impact of education and expertise in art on the process of examining a work of art has been studied in the present study via eye tracking method. The main purpose of the study was to compare a group of experts and non-experts in art with regard to eye tracking measurements, artwork analyses and recall performance. In this research, expert and non-expert groups were compared in terms of eye tracking measurements, heat maps, artwork analysis and the recall performances. Heat maps were demonstrated that experts viewed Early Renaissance and Fauvism movements, artworks more while non-experts viewed Fauvist artworks more in comparison with AOIs. However, it was indicated that there is no statistically significant difference between the expert and non-expert groups for each artwork about eye metrics and recall performance during art-work analysis. On the other hand, artwork analysis grades of the experts were deter-mined to be higher at a statistically significant level in comparison with the non-experts.

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Cite this publication

@article{cangoz2020art,
  author = {Cang{\"o}z, Banu and Oktay, Bahadir and R{\"u}zgar Kay{\i}ran, Necla and Emmungil Karamano{\u{g}}lu, Serap},
  title = {{Art Education and Expertise An Eye Tracking Study}},
  journal = {Hacettepe University Journal of the Faculty of Letters},
  volume = {38},
  number = {1},
  pages = {259--271},
  publisher = {Hacettepe {\"U}niversitesi},
  year = {2020},
  month = {8},
  issn = {1301-5737},
  doi = {10.32600/huefd.780593},
  url = {https://hacettepe.hbtech.com.tr/en/publication/art-education-and-expertise-an-eye-tracking-study},
  language = {en},
  keywords = {Psychology},
  abstract = {The impact of education and expertise in art on the process of examining a work of art has been studied in the present study via eye tracking method. The main purpose of the study was to compare a group of experts and non-experts in art with regard to eye tracking measurements, artwork analyses and recall performance. In this research, expert and non-expert groups were compared in terms of eye tracking measurements, heat maps, artwork analysis and the recall performances. Heat maps were demonstrated that experts viewed Early Renaissance and Fauvism movements, artworks more while non-experts viewed Fauvist artworks more in comparison with AOIs. However, it was indicated that there is no statistically significant difference between the expert and non-expert groups for each artwork about eye metrics and recall performance during art-work analysis. On the other hand, artwork analysis grades of the experts were deter-mined to be higher at a statistically significant level in comparison with the non-experts.},
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