3D attentional maps: aggregated gaze visualizations in three-dimensional virtual environments

  • Authors:
  • Sophie Stellmach;Lennart Nacke;Raimund Dachselt

  • Affiliations:
  • Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany;University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada;Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Gaze visualizations hold the potential to facilitate usability studies of interactive systems. However, visual gaze analysis in three-dimensional virtual environments still lacks methods and techniques for aggregating attentional representations. We propose three novel gaze visualizations for the application in such environments: projected, object-based, and surface-based attentional maps. These techniques provide an overview of how visual attention is distributed across a scene, among different models, and across a model's surface. Two user studies conducted among eye tracking and visualization experts approve the high value of these techniques for the fast evaluation of eye tracking studies in virtual environments.