Title
Mouse tracking: measuring and predicting users' experience of web-based content
Abstract
Previous studies have used mouse tracking as a tool to measure usability of webpages, user attention and search relevance. In this paper, we go beyond measurement of user behavior to prediction of the resulting user experience from mouse patterns alone. Specifically, we identify mouse markers that can predict user frustration and reading struggles at reasonably high accuracy. We believe that mouse-based prediction of user experience is an important advance, and could potentially offer a scalable way to infer user experience on the web. In addition, we demonstrate that mouse tracking could be used for applications such as evaluating content layout and content noticeability; we apply this in particular to advertisements. More generally, it could be used to infer user attention in complex webpages containing images, text and varied content, including how attention patterns vary with page layout and user distraction.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1145/2207676.2208705
CHI
Keywords
Field
DocType
user distraction,user attention,attention pattern,mouse pattern,mouse marker,user experience,user behavior,mouse tracking,resulting user experience,web-based content,user frustration,frustration,web pages,attention,measurement
User experience design,Page layout,Web page,Computer science,Usability,Human–computer interaction,Mouse tracking,User modeling,Web application,Computer user satisfaction,Multimedia
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
29
1.20
14
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Vidhya Navalpakkam143519.77
Elizabeth F. Churchill21503181.05