The 4th Workshop on Eye Movements and the Assessment of Reading Comprehension

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Dates: June 18-20, 2026

Venue: Hotel Diehls, Rheinsteigufer 1, 56077 (Find it on GoogleMaps)

Important Dates:

• Abstract submission deadline: April 1, 2026
• Acceptance notifications: April 10, 2026
• Application deadline for travel stipends: April 23, 2026
• Registration period for presenters ends: May 15, 2026
• Workshop dates: June 18-20, 2026

Keynote Speakers

Kate Nation (University of Oxford)

Ido Roll (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)

Sascha Schröder (University of Göttingen)

Workshop Scope

Effective and widely available reading assessments are fundamental for educational and clinical settings, as they are instrumental for early diagnosis of reading difficulties, enabling timely and targeted intervention. In this workshop, we explore how eye-tracking combined with machine learning technologies can enhance reading assessments. Our goal is to bring together researchers from various relevant fields, including educational science, cognitive psychology, psycholinguistics, eye-tracking-based reading research, and machine learning. The workshop will provide a platform for exchanging ideas for the next generation of reading assessments aided by eye-tracking and machine learning technologies, as well as inspiring cross-disciplinary research collaborations.

Registration

Participation in the workshop is free and also welcome for researchers who are not presenting. We look forward to lively and engaging discussions! Places are limited, with currently 20 spots are available. To register your interest, please contact the workshop organizer directly by email at stegenwa@uni-koblenz.de. You will then be sent a registration link, provided places are still available.

Workshop Program

Day 1, June 18, 2026

Poster Session 1:

1) The Effects of Word Length and Frequency on Eye Movements in a Bilingual Hindi-English Reading Corpus
Niket Agrawal, Anurati Tripathi, Anurag Khare, & Ark Verma

2) Getting the Most out of Noisy Paragraph Reading Data with GazeGenie
Bernhard Angele, Mario Romero Palau, Ladislao Salmerón, Marcin Budka, & Thomas Mercier

3) An Eye Tracking Study on Morphological Awareness of Deaf Turkish Readers
Bahtiyar Makaroğlu, Aslı Soylu, & Ebru Küçükyağcı

4) An Eye-Tracking Data-Cleaning Pipeline for Paragraph Reading by People with Aphasia
Kelly Knollman-Porter, Elise Bossenbroek, Candace van der Stelt, Karen Hux, & Sarah E. Wallace

5) Reading Skill, Not Language Background: An Eye-Tracking Study of Bilingual and Monolingual Undergraduates at a Hispanic-Serving Institution
Cristina Lozano-Argüelles

6) Age-Related Differences in Selective Attention during Sentence Processing
in Czech
Eva Pospíšilová & Jan Chromý

7) Relationship between Reading Strategies and Age - Results of an Eye-Tracking Study
Zsófia Gerák

8) Predictability in Reading and Writing: Evidence from Mandarin Classifiers
Jinyu Shi, Kate Nation, & Elizabeth Wonnacott

9) Cross-linguistic Correlates of Reading Difficulty: Investigating Bangla, Malayalam, Hindi and Urdu
Nayana Raj, Uzma Junaid, Bristi Saha, Karuna Kumari Sah, & Samar Husain

Day 2, June 19, 2026

Poster Session 2:

1) Clause Boundary Effects Connected Text: Readers Slow Down at the Beginning and End of Syntactic Clauses Ondřej Drobil, & Titus von der Malsburg

2) Psycholinguistic Evidence on Semantic Processing of Discourse Relations in European Portuguese
Violeta Amélia Magalhães, Juliana Novo Gomes, & Purificação Silvano

3) Predicting Subjective Reading Experience from Eye Movements
Giulia Zantonello, & Sascha Schroeder

4) ValidEye: A Proposal for Incorporating Psychophysiological Data into Validation Studies
Elena Riol-Ramirez, Patricia E. Roman, & Isabel Benítez

5) How Can Student Teachers’ Reading of Evidence Be Optimized?
Michael Rochnia

6) From Instructions to Actions: Inferring Reading Behavior and Comprehension Using Webcam-Based Gaze
Goyal Shivalika, Thakur Piyush, & Laddi Amit

Call for Abstracts

We invite submissions on any topic related to the workshop's theme, including:

• Methods and practices of reading assessment in education (including large scale assessments)
• Reading instruction and development
• Reading impairments and learning difficulties
• Machine reading comprehension
• AI, NLP and ML modeling of human reading
• Predictive modelling of language proficiency and reading interactions related to comprehension
• HCI, human factors, and interactive tutoring systems
• Eye tracking technologies
• Cognitive models of eye movements in reading
• Psycholinguistic analyses of reading
• Text readability and simplification

Since the workshop aims to bring together researchers from different communities and addresses a nascent research area, we also welcome contributions that involve eye movements in reading (or alternative methodologies such as self-paced reading and mouse tracking) without directly addressing the assessment of reading comprehension. Likewise, we invite contributions on reading assessments that do not involve eye-tracking.

Abstract Submission

• We invite submissions of short abstracts of up to 350 words.
• To submit your abstract, please fill in the abstract submission form
    at https://forms.gle/Nh7bREP59eyeYQGEA
• Submissions will be reviewed by the workshop organizers primarily with
    an eye to relevance
• We expect to accept 25–35 submissions.

Workshop Format

The first two days will feature a structured program, including talks, poster sessions, and group discussions. On the third day, the focus shifts to a more relaxed format, providing participants with the opportunity to network and plan joint activities in an informal setting while enjoying a hike or a boat tour on the rivers

Workshop Venue

The workshop will be held at the family owned Diehls Hotel which was established in 1919 and is beautifully located directly on the banks of the Rhine River. We booked two interconnected conference rooms Ehrenbreitenstein I and II which can accommodate up to 90 participants. Refreshments will be provided throughout the workshop.

A contingent of hotel rooms has been reserved for workshop participants. The hotel also features the restaurant, where we will enjoy our social dinner on Thursday evening.

The city of Koblenz is well connected to the city of Frankfurt via train. The venue is then accessible from Koblenz main station (Koblenz Hbf) by bus (16-25 Min depending on the bus route) or from the old city by taking a scenic ride across the Rhine river in the famous Koblenz Cable Car.

Contact information for booking and venue description with photos: https://diehls-hotel.de/en/rooms-suites/

Presentations

For those of you presenting a talk, please come prepared with your slides either on your own laptop or on a USB stick as a PDF as a backup. If you would like to use the presentation laptop we will provide at the venue, we kindly ask you to send us your slides as a PDF by Tuesday, June 18 (end of day) so we can have everything set up in advance.

For those of you presenting a poster, please prepare your poster in DIN A0 (841 × 1189 mm or approximately 33.1 × 46.8 inches) format in landscape orientation.

Accommodation

The following is a list of suggested hotels in Koblenz. Please note that rooms have only been reserved at Diehl's Hotel (the workshop venue). We therefore recommend booking as early as possible.

• Diehl's Hotel

• Sander Hotel

• B&B Hotel Koblenz City

• Mercure Koblenz

• Contel Koblenz

Organizing Team