Assessing information presentation preferences with eye movements

  • Authors:
  • Laurel A. King;Martha E. Crosby

  • Affiliations:
  • Communication and Information Sciences, University of Hawaii at Manoa;Information and Computer Sciences, Honolulu, HI

  • Venue:
  • FAC'07 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Foundations of augmented cognition
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

This study investigates the relationship between participants' self-reported high verbal or high visual information preferences and their performance and eye movements during analytical reasoning problems. Twelve participants, six male and six female, were selected as being more visual than verbal or more verbal than visual in approach, based on the results of a questionnaire administered to 140 college students. Selected participants were tested for individual differences in spatial ability and working memory capacity. They completed a repeated measures experiment while their eye movements were tracked to examine any correlation with their stated preference for verbal or visual information presentation. Performance on analytical reasoning problems with and without an optional diagram is compared between groups and within-subjects. Due to the small number of participants, between-group differences, although indicated, were mostly statistically insignificant. Within-subject analysis is still being completed, but trends in diagram usage are examined.