Eye-Movement Analysis of Search Effectivenessстатья из журнала
Аннотация: Advances in eye-tracking technology have promoted its widespread use to understand and improve target searches in psychology, industrial engineering, human factors, medical diagnostics, and marketing. Eye movements are the realization of a complex, unobserved spatiotemporal attention process with many sources of variation. Eye-tracking data often have been aggregated and/or summarized descriptively, because few adequate statistical models are available for their analysis. This article proposes a model that may serve to uncover the latent attention processes of people searching for targets in complex scenes. It recognizes the spatial nature of eye movements and represents two latent attention states, a localization state and an identification state, between which people may switch over time according to a Markov process. A saliency map, based on low-level perceptual features and the scene's organization, guide target searches in the localization state. In the identification state, people verify whether a selected candidate object is the target. The model is applied to analyze commercial eye-tracking data from more than 100 people engaged in a target search task on a computer-simulated retail shelf display. Rapid switching between attention states over time is revealed. Estimates of the feature and saliency maps are provided and found to be related to search performance. The results facilitate the evaluation of the effectiveness of alternative visual search strategies.
Год издания: 2008
Авторы: Ralf van der Lans, Rik Pieters, Michel Wedel
Источник: Journal of the American Statistical Association
Ключевые слова: Gaze Tracking and Assistive Technology, Visual Attention and Saliency Detection, Visual perception and processing mechanisms
Открытый доступ: closed
Том: 103
Выпуск: 482
Страницы: 452–461