Applied Cognitive Research/

Undoubtedly, there is a great potential for the eye movement research community with the ECEM as face-to-face platform and the JEMR as open access journal to bridge the gap between basic knowledge and experimen-tal procedures, on the one hand, and the idiosyncratic requirements for a successful application of eye tracking, on the other. The current special issue of the journal is a representative – though non exhaustive – selection of recent studies that attempt to reach exactly this goal, i.e. bringing expertise in eye movement research to appli-cation domains. The idea to use the methodology of eye movement analysis in the field of usability and human-computer interaction (HCI) is not new. In the framework of the 12th ECEM, it already has been stated that “uses of ey