webgazer-ext

tracking gaze while reading Wikipedia
What is webgazer-ext?
webgazer-ext is a Chrome extension developed by a research group at EPFL to collect eye-gaze data from Wikipedia readers. It is a crowdsourcing tool designed for research on users' behavior while reading Wikipedia articles.

Extension stats

Users: 26 ▼ -6
Rating: 5.00 (1)
Version: 3.2.8 (Last updated: 2020-11-01)
Creation date: 2020-09-18
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • tabs
  • storage
Size: 1.56M

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Not available on Firefox
Not available on Edge
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Extension summary

We are a multi-national research group centered at EPFL working on users' behavior while reading Wikipedia. We have designed this extension as a crowdsourcing tool to collect the eye-gaze of Wikipedia readers. The current version of the extension will only be distributed to a small community of paid Amazon Mechanical Turkers, and there is no point for other people to install it. It should be noted that we do not send the user's video over the web, and all processes take place in the browser.

Extension safety

Risk impact

webgazer-ext requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

webgazer-ext has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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