Sam Hutton

Sam Hutton studied Experimental Psychology at the University of Sussex, and liked it so much he stayed there to do a PhD. His first encounter with an eye tracker was during his post-doctoral fellowship at Imperial College, London. He was based in the Neuro-opthalmology unit at Charing Cross Hospital for 6 years, and whilst there learned to use an ancient infrared eye tracking system to measure basic oculomotor function (prosaccades / antisaccades / smooth pursuit etc) in patients with neuropsychiatric and neurological disorders. He was hooked, and has been actively involved in eye tracking research in one way or another ever since. When not writing blogs (e.g. most of the time…) he works with the rest of the SR Research Support Team on a range of projects, taking a particular interest in issues involving eye tracking in clinical settings (for example eye tracking nystagmus / neurological disorders) and pupillometry. He can also be found teaching eye tracking workshops on a range of topics, and generally trying to make sure that people don’t make the same mistakes he did. He loves to eye track animals, and has so far managed to record gaze from mice, cats, dogs and a duck…