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# 💻 iTrace: verification-first webcam eye-movement analysis

**Daniel Ari Friedman** (2026) · *Zenodo*

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## Abstract

> iTrace is an MIT-licensed Python toolkit for webcam-derived gaze, saccade, pupil, and quality diagnostics. Version 0.4.1 is a diagnostic v1 release: the pure NumPy/SciPy core is algorithmically verified against synthetic and closed-loop oracles, the optional webcam shell exports derived records, and the empirical ledger covers a single-participant, single-device, five-session diagnostic pilot...

## Keywords

`eye-tracking` · `webcam` · `gaze` · `saccades` · `pupillometry` · `open-source` · `diagnostic-pilot`

## Methods

- Software pipeline design
- Data-driven analysis

## Key Findings

- iTrace is an MIT-licensed Python toolkit for webcam-derived gaze, saccade, pupil, and quality diagnostics.
- Version 0.4.1 is a diagnostic v1 release: the pure NumPy/SciPy core is algorithmically verified against synthetic and closed-loop oracles, the optional webcam shell exports derived records, and the em

## Artifacts

- GitHub repository: [docxology/itrace](https://github.com/docxology/itrace)
- GitHub release: [v0.4.1](https://github.com/docxology/itrace/releases/tag/v0.4.1)
- DOI: [10.5281/zenodo.20614908](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20614908)
- Artifact DOI: [10.5281/zenodo.20614909](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20614909)
- Zenodo record: [https://zenodo.org/records/20614909](https://zenodo.org/records/20614909)
- PDF: [itrace-0.4.1-manuscript.pdf](itrace-0.4.1-manuscript.pdf)
- PDF SHA-256: [See Zenodo record](https://zenodo.org/records/20614909)

## Citation

> Daniel Ari Friedman (2026). *iTrace: verification-first webcam eye-movement analysis*. Zenodo. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20614908. URL: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20614908.

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