Cognitive strategies and eye movements for searching hierarchical computer displays Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:345276, abstract = {This research investigates the cognitive strategies and eye movements that people use to search for a known item in a hierarchical computer display. Computational cognitive models were built to simulate the visual-perceptual and oculomotor processing required to search hierarchical and nonhierarchical displays. Eye movement data were collected and compared on over a dozen measures with the "a priori" predictions of the models. Though it is well accepted that hierarchical layouts are easier to search than nonhierarchical layouts, the underlying cognitive basis for this design heuristic has not yet been established. This work combines cognitive modeling and eye tracking to explain this and numerous other visual design guidelines. This research also demonstrates the power of cognitive modeling for predicting, explaining, and interpreting eye movement data, and how to use eye tracking data to confirm and disconfirm modeling details.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Hornof, Anthony J. and Halverson, Tim}, booktitle = {CHI '03: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems}, citeulike-article-id = {345276}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=642656}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/642611.642656}, doi = {10.1145/642611.642656}, isbn = {1-58113-630-7}, keywords = {cognitive, design, eye, gui, hierarchical, interfaces, menus, modeling, movements, screen, search, tracking, user, visual}, location = {Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA}, pages = {249--256}, posted-at = {2005-10-07 23:35:33}, priority = {3}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {Cognitive strategies and eye movements for searching hierarchical computer displays}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/642611.642656}, year = {2003} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:345276 L3 - citeulike-article-id:345276 N2 - This research investigates the cognitive strategies and eye movements that people use to search for a known item in a hierarchical computer display. Computational cognitive models were built to simulate the visual-perceptual and oculomotor processing required to search hierarchical and nonhierarchical displays. Eye movement data were collected and compared on over a dozen measures with the "a priori" predictions of the models. Though it is well accepted that hierarchical layouts are easier to search than nonhierarchical layouts, the underlying cognitive basis for this design heuristic has not yet been established. This work combines cognitive modeling and eye tracking to explain this and numerous other visual design guidelines. This research also demonstrates the power of cognitive modeling for predicting, explaining, and interpreting eye movement data, and how to use eye tracking data to confirm and disconfirm modeling details. CY - Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA SN - 1-58113-630-7 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 256 TI - Cognitive strategies and eye movements for searching hierarchical computer displays PB - ACM T2 - CHI '03: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems SP - 249 KW - cognitive KW - design KW - eye KW - gui KW - hierarchical KW - interfaces KW - menus KW - modeling KW - movements KW - screen KW - search KW - tracking KW - user KW - visual AU - Hornof, Anthony AU - Halverson, Tim PY - 2003/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/642611.642656 ER -