Eye-tracking Data from the 2017 Aesthetic Value Project on the Great Barrier Reef

The NESP TWQ 3.2.3 project by the Griffith Institute for Tourism Research produced this dataset from an eye-tracking experiment. It includes 66 participant recordings, 21 heatmaps, 21 underwater reef images, and tabular data with beauty ratings and eye-tracking metrics. The data was collected in 2017 and is associated with a submitted publication in the Journal of Sustainable Tourism.

Use Cases

• Analyzing visual attention patterns on underwater scenes based on eye-tracking recordings and heatmaps.
• Modeling the relationship between perceived beauty and eye-tracking metrics like fixation count and duration.
• Identifying areas of interest (AOIs) in environmental imagery based on aggregated participant gaze data.
• Studying the correlation between subjective beauty ratings and objective visual behavior measures.

Strengths

• Includes 66 participant recordings, providing a multi-modal view of visual behavior.
• Contains both raw experimental data (21 images, 66 videos) and processed analytical outputs (SPSS files).
• Pairs quantitative eye-tracking metrics with qualitative interview data from 40 subjects.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic and source bias inherent to the specific Great Barrier Reef images and convenience sampling of 66 participants.
• Last updated 2026-07-10 15:57:49.632845; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

Griffith Institute for Tourism Research, NESP Tropical Water Quality Hub Project 3.2.3.

Collection Method

Eye-tracking experiment using a Tobii T60 eye-tracker with 66 participants, who viewed 21 images and provided beauty/expectation ratings. Subsequent interviews with 40 subjects identified areas of interest.

Time Range

2017

Geography

Great Barrier Reef (imagery)