Citation

Donnelly N, Muhl-Richardson A, Godwin HJ, Cave KR. Vision (Basel) 2019; 3(2): e3020024.

Affiliation

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, MDPI: Multidisciplinary Digital Publications Institute)

DOI

10.3390/vision3020024

PMID

31735825

PMCID

PMC6802782

Abstract

There has been an increasing drive to understand failures in searches for weapons and explosives in X-ray baggage screening. Tracking eye movements during the search has produced new insights into the guidance of attention during the search, and the identification of targets once they are fixated. Here, we review the eye-movement literature that has emerged on this front over the last fifteen years, including a discussion of the problems that real-world searchers face when trying to detect targets that could do serious harm to people and infrastructure.

Language: en

Keywords

X-ray images; eye movements; security screening; visual search