Title
Pupil dilations during target-pointing respect Fitts' law
Abstract
Pupil size is known to correlate with changes of cognitive task workloads, but the pupillary response to requirements of basic goal-directed motor tasks is not yet clear, although pointing with tools is a ubiquitous human task. This work describes a user study to investigate the pupil dilations during aiming in two tele-operation tasks with different target settings, one aiming at targets with different sizes located at constant distance apart, and the other aiming at targets varying in different distances. The task requirements in each task were defined by Fitts' index of difficulty (ID). The purpose of this work is to further explore how the changes in task requirements are reflected by the changes of pupil size, i.e., whether the pupil responds to either target size or target distance, or to both of them. Pupil responses to different task IDs were recorded in each task. The results showed that the pupil responds to the changes of ID, not just to the change of target size. This implies that pupil diameter can be employed as an indicator of task requirement in goal-directed movements, because higher task difficulty evoked higher peak pupil dilation which occurred with longer delay. These findings can be used for detailed understanding of eye-hand coordination mechanisms in interactive systems and contribute to the foundation for developing methods to objectively evaluate interactive task requirements using pupil parameters during goal-directed movements.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1145/2578153.2578178
ETRA
Keywords
Field
DocType
basic goal-directed motor task,task requirement,target-pointing respect fitts,tele-operation task,pupil dilation,target size,cognitive task workloads,different task ids,higher task difficulty,pupil size,goal-directed movement,interactive task requirement,fitts law
Computer vision,Fitts's law,Pupillary response,Computer science,Simulation,Pupil,Artificial intelligence,Pupil diameter,Cognition
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.45
6
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xianta Jiang15910.28
M Stella Atkins21076109.44
Geoffrey Tien3598.34
Bin Zheng4234.46
Roman Bednarik556148.77