Just one of many thoughts of what was not included in this study, which I think impacts operational performance. Though the Pupil Invisible eye trackers were use, the study only looked at eye closures. Documenting how quickly participants moved their tactical gaze to the weapon (or non-weapon) location, as emphasized in the training, could have been easily included. It is well known that we will shoot at what our central foveal vision is focused on (gaze-action coupling). If our focus is on the drawn weapon when we shoot, the hand/weapon is often hit (just ask FOF participants with simunitions). Bad guys tend to focus their attention on the face (e.g., LE), which accounts for the high percentage of lethal head/neck/upper torso hits.
After identifying the object (weapon or not) via visual attention, the gaze (visual focus) needs to shift to the target area on the subject (torso/head) and coupled with appropriate actions (shots taken). Eye tracking glasses can helps identify good and bad tactical gaze patterns, but gaze-action coupling is a vital skill that can be learned. The Lewinski and Vickers expert/novice study demonstrated this.
Just one of many thoughts of what was not included in this study, which I think impacts operational performance. Though the Pupil Invisible eye trackers were use, the study only looked at eye closures. Documenting how quickly participants moved their tactical gaze to the weapon (or non-weapon) location, as emphasized in the training, could have been easily included. It is well known that we will shoot at what our central foveal vision is focused on (gaze-action coupling). If our focus is on the drawn weapon when we shoot, the hand/weapon is often hit (just ask FOF participants with simunitions). Bad guys tend to focus their attention on the face (e.g., LE), which accounts for the high percentage of lethal head/neck/upper torso hits.
After identifying the object (weapon or not) via visual attention, the gaze (visual focus) needs to shift to the target area on the subject (torso/head) and coupled with appropriate actions (shots taken). Eye tracking glasses can helps identify good and bad tactical gaze patterns, but gaze-action coupling is a vital skill that can be learned. The Lewinski and Vickers expert/novice study demonstrated this.
Agreed, too many officers are deficient in scenario based training