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Jenny [Tobii]
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Hi,

If you only want to change the X value, then only change the X value in your code.
Hard-code the Y value to the Y position you want your paddle to slide along, and update the X value according to the Gaze Point’s X value.

You should probably also do some filtering of the Gaze Point’s X value so that the paddle does not jiggle or jump back and forth.

You can filter the eye-gaze data by calculating a moving average using the last 10 Gaze Points. Here is a simple description of how to calculate a moving average:
http://www.statisticshowto.com/moving-average/
This will make all paddle movements overall slower and smoother.

A more advanced filtering would be to use an exponentially decaying filter as explained here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3760506/smoothing-values-over-time-moving-average-or-something-better
This would make the paddle steady when the eye-gaze is focused on specific point, but fast when moving the eye-gaze to another part of the screen.