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Abstract : Glaucoma is the second leading cause of blindness characterized by damage in the optic nerve and visual field loss. The disease does not show visible symptoms in the early stages, but it creates a scotoma in the peripheral vision and later impairs the central vision. The daily routines such as visual search, watching television, and reading can be screened to understand the visual decline in glaucoma. The visual field loss leads to the functional deficit and alters eye movements in performing day-to-day activities. The awareness of the disease tends to create a strategy of exploratory eye movements to compensate for the visual field loss. However, the association between exploratory eye gaze patterns and the severity of the disease is not well understood. The framework examines the performance of glaucoma subgroups concerning age and severity grade and whether exploratory eye movement patterns reflect in different tasks.