No-Code Eye Tracking in PsychoPy | Beginner-Friendly Tutorial Using MouseGaze

Learn how to create an eye tracking experiment in PsychoPy — no coding required! This beginner-friendly tutorial walks you through setting up calibration, validation, region of interest detection, and data saving. We use MouseGaze to simulate eye tracking without any hardware, making this a perfect starting point for anyone new to gaze-based experiments. 🔌 PsychoPy supports plugins for: Gazepoint Tobii SR Research (EyeLink) Pupil Labs 🧩 In this tutorial, we cover: Setting up calibration and validation routines Adding start/stop recording for the tracker Detecting when participants look at a region of interest Enabling debug mode Configuring your eye tracker Installing the correct plugin Running and testing the experiment Understanding eye tracker validation results Data saving options 📂 Download all materials here: https://gitlab.pavlovia.org/Consultancy/eyetracking_youtube 🧠 For data analysis and HDF5 understanding, check out our follow-up video. 💬 Need help? Get free community support at https://discourse.psychopy.org For custom tasks or one-on-one consultancy, visit: https://www.psychopy.org/consultancy.html ⏱️ Timestamps 00:54 – Calibration routine 01:28 – Adding validation component 02:34 – Eye tracker record (start/stop) 03:55 – Region of interest (ROI) 05:04 – Debug mode 05:43 – Experiment settings 06:23 – Installing plugins 07:32 – Running the experiment 08:12 – Validation results 09:15 – Data saving options