Paper Info
Title
SwitchBack: Using Focus and Saccade Tracking to Guide Users' Attention for Mobile Task Resumption
Abstract
Smartphones and tablets are often used in dynamic environments that force users to break focus and attend to their surroundings, creating a form of \"situational impairment.\" Current mobile devices have no ability to sense when users divert or restore their attention, let alone provide support for resuming tasks. We therefore introduce SwitchBack, a system that allows mobile device users to resume tasks more efficiently. SwitchBack is built upon Focus and Saccade Tracking (FAST), which uses the front-facing camera to determine when the user is looking and how their eyes are moving across the screen. In a controlled study, we found that FAST can identify how many lines the user has read in a body of text within a mean absolute percent error of just 3.9%. We then tested SwitchBack in a dual focus-of-attention task, finding that SwitchBack improved average reading speed by 7.7% in the presence of distractions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1145/2702123.2702539
CHI
Keywords
Field
DocType
input devices and strategies,gaze-tracking,reading,situational impairments,mobile
Mean absolute percentage error,Computer science,Mobile device,Human–computer interaction,Situational ethics,Saccade,Multimedia
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
10
0.56
11
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alexander Mariakakis1354.00
Mayank Goel243231.80
Md Tanvir Islam Aumi3723.69
Shwetak N. Patel42967211.74
Jacob O. Wobbrock54716246.78