Title
Attention and selection in online choice tasks
Abstract
The task of selecting one among several items in a visual display is extremely common in daily life and is executed billions of times every day on the Web. Attention is vital for selection, but the end-to-end process of what draws and sustains attention, and how that influences selection, remains poorly understood. We study this in a complex multi-item selection setting, where participants selected one among eight news articles presented in a grid layout on a screen. By varying the position, saliency, and topic of the news items, we identify the relative importance of these visual and semantic factors in attention and selection. We present a simple model of attention that predicts many key features such as attention shifts and dwell time per item. Potential applications of our findings include optimizing visual displays to drive user attention.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1007/978-3-642-31454-4_17
UMAP
Keywords
Field
DocType
user attention,influences selection,attention shift,news item,dwell time,visual display,end-to-end process,daily life,news article,online choice task,complex multi-item selection setting,explicit semantic analysis,vector space model,logistic regression
Dwell time,Random indexing,Salience (neuroscience),Computer science,Explicit semantic analysis,Artificial intelligence,Vector space model,Machine learning,Grid
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.47
6
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Vidhya Navalpakkam143519.77
Ravi Kumar2139321642.48
Lihong Li32390128.53
D. Sivakumar43515389.02