Ongoing work
ISCET is currently (as of 2025-26) developing its first guidelines, fixation and nystagmus, in collaboration with ISCEV. As the first ISCET guideline, it is being developed in isolation, to act as a learning process for the development of subsequent guidelines.
Recordings and notes from all previous ISCET meetings are available here.
Remit
The International Society for Clinical Eye Tracking (ISCET; “eye-set”) was established in March 2023 and is a forum for international consensus on open standards. ISCET aims to:
- Provide ‘default’ minimal standards for conducting and analyzing eye tracking tasks in clinical settings*
- ISCET standards will be organised by eye movement class and/or by the condition they intend to diagnose
- ISCET standards are developed by subcommittees with input across the international eyetracking community, including representation from (at least) clinicians, data quality experts, manufacturers, and (where relevant) representatives of affected organisations. They should include expertise on both the clinical condition of interest and the eye movement system(s) involved. All are welcome to contribute to ISCET standards, taking into account the possibility of conflicts of interest. Where standards subcommittees concern a clinical condition, they should be chaired by a clinician.
- In the event that aspects of a standard cannot be agreed upon, then the published standard will allow for flexibility in its implementation.
- ISCET will maintain an open source repository of code for ISCET-compliant protocols to enable them to be run on all major eyetrackers.
- ISCET also intends to define a standard open file format for clinical eyetracking data to enable data sharing between devices.
*ISCET does not intend to dictate how clinicians should perform their work, but provide a minimal set of defaults suited to most situations (“all else being equal”). It is hoped that this will lead to increased freedom of patient movement between test centers, make it easier for new clinicians to enter the field, and provide opportunities for data sharing and meta-analyses.
- Provide a unified voice for clinicians working with eye trackers
Clinical use of eyetracking is still relatively rare. ISCET provides a voice for existing clinicians, and guidance to new clinicians seeking to enter the field. Specific issues that ISCET intends to address include:
- Lack of certification allowing eyetrackers to be used in clinical settings
- Lack of ‘fee codes’ to allow clinicians to claim for performing eye tracking tests
- Maintain reference datasets
Deviations from ‘normal’ eye tracking data can only be interpreted with reference to a normative dataset. Standardized international protocols provide the ability to pool data from multiple sites to determine normative ranges. The extent to which individual sites/hardware may also require local normative datasets is yet to be determined.
Structure
ISCET is open to anyone with an interest in clinical eye tracking, and all decisions made are based on the majority present at any given meeting. To get involved, please join the mailing group and forum, and dial into a meeting. This bottom-up approach aims to encourage wide participation and ensure the direction of ISCET is representative of all those with an interest in the future of clinical eye tracking.
All meetings (to date) have been held online. Due to the international nature of the society and the need to provide meeting times suitable to all, the society is organised according to three regions:
- Asia/Australasia
- Europe/Africa
- The Americas
Meetings times are rotated as suitable to each region, with a local host.
Organising committee
The role of the organising committee is to coordinate the society, facilitate collaboration and ensure the views of the entire international eye tracking community are represented by ISCET. The committee occasionally hold additional meetings (recordings can be found at the bottom of the Meetings page). Decisions on ISCET standards are not made at committee meetings – these are made by subcommittees drawn from the wider group. For more information, see the People page.
Subcommittees
Subcommittees are drawn from ISCET members and are tasked with specific objectives, such as developing standards.
For information on current and former subcommittee composition, see the People page.
Get involved
Anyone with an interest in clinical eye tracking is encouraged to participate. Click here to sign up to the email group, which is open for all to post to. You can also join the discussion at the forum.