Laqua, S;
Pate, G;
Sasse, MA;
(2006)
Personalised Focus-Metaphor Interfaces: An Eye Tracking Study on User Confusion.
In: Heinecke, AM and Paul, H, (eds.)
Proceedings of Mensch und Computer 2006: Mensch und Computer im Strukturwandel.
(pp. pp. 175-184).
Oldenbourg Verlag: Munich, Germany.
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Abstract
Personalised web interfaces are expected to improve user interaction with web content. But since the delivery of personalised web content is currently not reliable, a key question is how much users may be confused and slowed down when personalised delivery goes wrong. The aim of the study reported in this paper was to investigate a worst-case scenario of failed personalised content presentation – a dynamic presentation of content where content was dynamically presented, but content units were selected at random. We employed eye-tracking to monitor the differences in users’ attention and navigation when interacting with this “dysfunctional” dynamic interface, and a static version. We found that subjects who interacted with the dysfunctional version took 10% longer to read their material than those with static content, and displayed a different strategy in scanning the interface. The relatively small difference in navigation time in first-time viewers of dynamically presented content, and of the results from the eye-tracking patterns, suggests that users are not significantly confused and slowed down by dynamic presentation of content when using a Focus-Metaphor interface
Type: | Proceedings paper |
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Title: | Personalised Focus-Metaphor Interfaces: An Eye Tracking Study on User Confusion |
Event: | Mensch und Computer 2006: Mensch und Computer im Strukturwandel |
ISBN-13: | 978-3-486-58129-4 |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
Publisher version: | https://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/6871 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/20338 |
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