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Touch Input and Gaze Correlation on Tablets

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Intelligent Decision Technologies 2017 (IDT 2017)

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Prior work has shown gaze behaviour correlates with mouse movement in conventional desktop interfaces. As many devices now employ direct touch instead of a mouse, we have conducted a first study analysing how gaze correlates with touch input. We collected touch and gaze data on a tablet from 24 participants, on search, shopping, and “link-following” tasks representative of typical online use of tablets. Our analysis shows a gaze fixation typically leads touch input by 337 ms within 197 pixels. We observed a stronger correlation in the context of link-following, in comparison with touch on other HTML objects and virtual keyboard.

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Notes

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    We chose the website of a leading supermarket in the UK, Sainsbury’s.

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    This is the dimension of the full screen in the non high DPI mode on the tablet.

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    http://www.ogama.net/.

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    Value based on the minimum point reported in Sect. 4.2 and the difference within participants in Sect. 4.3 (\(-0.337-0.249\approx -0.6\)).

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  1. School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK

    Pierre Weill-Tessier & Hans Gellersen

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  1. Maritime University , Gdynia, Poland

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  2. Bournemouth University and KES International, Poole, Dorset, United Kingdom

    Robert J. Howlett

  3. University of Canberra, Canberra, Aust Capital Terr, Australia

    Lakhmi C. Jain

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Weill-Tessier, P., Gellersen, H. (2018). Touch Input and Gaze Correlation on Tablets. In: Czarnowski, I., Howlett, R., Jain, L. (eds) Intelligent Decision Technologies 2017. IDT 2017. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 73. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59424-8_27

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