Eye-tracking data from 93 participants across three socio-cultural groups (non-indigenous Australians, Chinese, and First Peoples Australians) evaluating the aesthetic beauty of 20 underwater Great Barrier Reef images. The data includes raw eye-tracking metrics and beauty ratings, collected as part of the NESP TWQ 5.5 project by the Griffith Institute for Tourism Research. The study extends prior NESP 3.2.3 research to examine cross-cultural differences in visual attention and aesthetic assessment.
Use Cases
- Analyzing cross-cultural differences in visual attention based on eye-tracking metrics like fixation duration and count.
- Correlating objective eye-tracking measures with subjective beauty ratings on a 10-point scale.
- Studying visual attention patterns for environmental or tourism imagery using the included 20 heatmaps.
- Comparing aesthetic assessment methodologies by replicating or extending the NESP 3.2.3 project framework.
Strengths
- Includes data from 93 participants across three distinct socio-cultural groups, enabling cross-cultural analysis.
- Combines objective eye-tracking metrics (e.g., time to first fixation, fixation count) with subjective 10-point beauty ratings for each of 20 images.
- Provides multiple data formats: raw tabular data and 20 visual heatmaps in PNG format showing aggregated visual attention.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for specific modeling tasks.
- Data may reflect bias inherent to the convenience sampling method used for participant recruitment.
Provenance
- Source
- Griffith Institute for Tourism Research, NESP TWQ 5.5 project.
- Collection Method
- Data collected using a Tobii T60 eye-tracker in a lab setting, with participants viewing 20 images and providing beauty ratings. Raw data was exported from the device and analyzed in IBM SPSS.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-07-13 15:23:57.365507; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Focus on the Great Barrier Reef; participant recruitment location is not specified.