Title
Studying Eye Movements as a Basis for Measuring Cognitive Load.
Abstract
Users' cognitive load while interacting with a system is a valuable metric for evaluations in HCI. We encourage the analysis of eye movements as an unobtrusive and widely available way to measure cognitive load. In this paper, we report initial findings from a user study with 26 participants working on three visual search tasks that represent different levels of difficulty. Also, we linearly increased the cognitive demand while solving the tasks. This allowed us to analyze the reaction of individual eye movements to different levels of task difficulty. Our results show how pupil dilation, blink rate, and the number of fixations and saccades per second individually react to changes in cognitive activity. We discuss how these measurements could be combined in future work to allow for a comprehensive investigation of cognitive load in interactive settings.
Year
Venue
Field
2018
CHI Extended Abstracts
Pupillary response,Fixation (psychology),Computer science,Eye tracking,Human–computer interaction,Eye movement,Cognition,Cognitive load,Visual search tasks
DocType
ISBN
Citations 
Conference
978-1-4503-5621-3
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
8
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Johannes Zagermann1205.09
Ulrike Pfeil246632.58
Harald Reiterer31017103.15