Workspace Overview

The GazePlotter Workspace is your central analysis dashboard. It operates as an interactive single-page canvas where you can arrange plots, configure metrics, and manage your dataset libraries.

Workspace Layout & Interface Terms

The workspace is divided into four main functional zones:

+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|                                 RIBBON                                 |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|     |                                                      |           |
|  R  |                           CANVAS                     |     P     |
|  A  |                        (Plot Grid)                   |     A     |
|  I  |                                                      |     N     |
|  L  |                                                      |     E     |
|     |                                                      |           |
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Ribbon

Located along the top edge of the workspace. It houses the global operations for your active analysis:

• Import — Click to upload eye-tracking files and event files, or restore saved workspace configurations.
• Export — Save your workspace configurations, high-resolution figures, letter-coded gaze sequences, or calculated metric tables.
• Metadata — Inspect source and parsing details for your datasets to troubleshoot format compatibility.

Rail

Located on the left side of the screen (on desktop) or at the sticky bottom (on mobile).

• Add Visualizations — Click the Add Visualization button (+ icon) to open a menu of plot categories. Selecting a plot type from this menu adds it to the first free space on the grid.
• Canvas Operations — Access buttons for Undo (revert the last action), Redo (re-apply undone actions), and Reset Layout (re-tile all plots into a clean grid).

Canvas

The central area of the screen where plots are arranged.

• Selection — Click any card to select it (or hold Cmd / Ctrl / Shift to select multiple). Selection opens the Pane and reveals card controls.
• Canvas Operations — Drag, resize, duplicate, or delete cards to arrange your grid. For details, see Plot Manipulation.

Pane

A collapsible panel located on the right side of the screen.

• Pane Activation — Opens automatically when you select any plot card on the canvas.
• Collapsible Settings — Customize parameters (e.g. Stimulus, Participant Group, Participant, Time Range, Areas of Interest, Events, Eye-movement Classification, Metric). See Visualization Configuration Pane for details.
• Batch Editing — Modify settings for multiple selected plots simultaneously (mixed plot types only expose shared options).

Plot Manipulation

To perform any manipulation (moving, resizing, duplicating, or removing), you must select the target plot card first by clicking it. Clicking empty canvas space deselects it.

Moving a plot

With the plot selected, the whole card is a drag target — click and drag anywhere on the card frame to move it. Plots snap to a 40×40 pixel grid, and the canvas expands when you drag toward an edge. With several plots selected, drag any one to move them all together.

Resizing a plot

Drag any of the four corner handles on a selected plot. The card snaps to the grid as it resizes.

Duplicating a plot

Click Duplicate in the action chip at the plot’s top-left corner. The copy keeps every setting — participant group, stimulus, axis bounds, colors.

Removing a plot

Click Remove in the action chip at the plot’s top-left corner.

Customization Libraries

GazePlotter includes dedicated libraries to customize and configure how your data is grouped, colored, named, and calculated:

• AOI Library — Control how Areas of Interest (AOIs) are colored, labeled, grouped, and hidden. Managed per stimulus.
• Event Library — Color-code and group event markers, and pair start/end events to derive custom event intervals.
• Eye-movement Type Library — Configure and customize classification categories (like fixations, saccades, and blinks) by renaming, recoloring, or hiding them globally.
• Participant Groups — Create participant cohorts based on demographic or experimental conditions to run group-level comparisons.
• Participant Library — Rename participant labels individually or in bulk (using regular expressions), and sort or reorder the active participant sequence.
• Stimuli Library — Manage stimulus names, perform bulk regex renaming, and reorder stimulus lists.