Conference Program

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Day 1: 20 August 2026

8:30 - 9:00
Registration and Coffee
9:00 - 9:30
Opening Remarks
(Local Organizer & MultiplEYE chairs)
9:30 - 10:30
Invited Talk 1
Elizabeth R. Schotter: Reading efficiency: Optimal coordination between eye movements and distributed language processing
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:15
MultiplEYE Corpus Session 1

Lena Ann Jäger: The MultipEYE Eyetracking-While-Reading Corpus

Oleksandra Kuvshynova & Mircea Marin: Multilingual annotation of the MultiplEYE corpus texts

Maja Stegenwallner-Schütz: The MultiplEYE Assessment of Text Comprehension during Natural Reading

12:15 - 13:00
Short Talks
12:15
Cui Ding, Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox, Lena Ann Jäger: Individual Differences of Spillover in Naturalistic Reading
12:30
Li Kloostra, Rick Nouwen, Jakub Dotlacil: Coherence illusions in discourse processing: eye-tracking and acceptability studies on presupposition resolution with ’again’
12:45
Candace M. van der Stelt, Elise Bossenbroek, Kelly Knollman-Porter, Karen Hux, Sarah E. Wallace: Effects of text simplification on reading comprehension accuracy, perceived difficulty, and reading fluency in post-stroke aphasia
13:00 - 14:30
Lunch
14:30 - 15:30
MultiplEYE Corpus Session 2

Eva Pavlinušić Vilus: The MultiplEYE Psychometric Test Battery

Carlson Büth: The MultiplEYE Pipeline: An Open Source, Adaptable Eye-Tracking-while-Reading Preprocessing Pipeline Including a Tutorial

Marie-Luise Müller: EyeStore - Facilitating Discovery and Reuse for Eye-Tracking-While-Reading Data

15:30 - 16:30
Invited Talk 2
Noam Siegelman: Reading As Statistical Learning: New Insights from the Multilingual Eye-Movement Corpus (MECO)
16:30 - 17:30
Poster Session and Coffee Break
(7 posters)
19:00
Social Event / Dinner
Restaurant Lira
Location: Ul. Nikola Tesla 11 [Map]

Day 2: 21 August 2026

8:30 - 9:00
Registration and Coffee
9:00 - 10:00
Invited Talk 3
Ekta Sood: From Human Gaze to Behavior-Grounded AI
10:00 - 10:45
Short Talks
10:00
Daniel G. Krakowczyk, Carlson Moses Büth, David Robert Reich, Deborah Noemie Jakobi, Paul Prasse, Andreas Säuberli, Anastassia Shaitarova, Lena Ann Jäger: pymovements: Building Blocks for Reproducible Eye-Tracking Pipelines
10:15
Reinhold Kliegl, Maximilian M. Rabe: Integrating Statistical and Computational Modeling of Eye Movement Control in Reading with a Linked Mixture Model
10:30
Anna Bondar, David Robert Reich, Lena Ann Jäger: Mixture of Readers (MoRe): Enabling Scanpath Generation for Different Reader Groups
10:45 - 11:45
Poster Session and Coffee Break
(6 posters)
11:45 - 12:30
Short Talks
11:45
Annika Kängsepp, Maarja-Liisa Pilvik, Kaidi Lõo, Külli Habicht, Liina Lindström: Reading standard and nonstandard parallel forms in Estonian
12:00
Johanne S. K. Nedergaard, Solvej W. Jaeger, Ivalo I. Mathiassen: Tracking reading in Kalaallisut: The morpheme as the basic unit of analysis
12:15
Maroš Filip, Michaela Svoboda, Kateřina Chládková: Eye-tracking of sign language: the effect of learning experience
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:00
Invited Talk 4
Jochen Laubrock: The Predictive Reader: What Large Language Models Reveal About Reading Across Languages and Development
15:00 - 16:00
Poster Session and Coffee Break
(7 posters)
16:00 - 16:30
Closing Remarks
18:00
City Tour (Meeting Point: Mother Teresa Memorial House)

Poster Sessions Detail

Day 1: 16:30 - 17:30 | Poster Session and Coffee Break (7 posters)

Day 2: 10:45 - 11:45 | Poster Session and Coffee Break (6 posters)

Day 2: 15:00 - 16:00 | Poster Session and Coffee Break (7 posters)