A quarter of a century ago, in 1980 initiated by Rudolf Groner, Henk Breimer and Dieter Heller, a transdisciplinary network called "European Group of Scientists active in Eye Movement Research" was founded. This group included scientists who used eye movement registration as a research tool and developed models based on oculomotor data obtained from a wide spectrum of phenomena, ranging from the neurophysiological to the perceptual and the cognitive level.

The group was intended to serve the purpose of