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Two studies are reported exploring the usefulness of eye-tracking techniques in illuminatingcomputer users’ behaviour in conducting collaborative tasks while supported by multimedia communications. We describe how the technology was deployed and the data we derived to explore the use of visual cues incomputer-supported collaborative problem solving. Participants made modest use of the video-link to their remote collaborator, devoting most of their visual attention to other onscreen resources. Varying the quality of this video-link did not influence its use. Eye-tracking was found to be a viable and useful evaluation technique in CSCW.
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Mullin, J., Anderson, A.H., Smallwood, L., Jackson, M., Katsavras, E. (2001). Eye-Tracking Explorations in Multimedia Communications. In: Blandford, A., Vanderdonckt, J., Gray, P. (eds) People and Computers XV—Interaction without Frontiers. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0353-0_22
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