Eye tracking within the packaging design workflow: interaction with physical and virtual shelves

  • Authors:
  • Chip Tonkin;Andrew D. Ouzts;Andrew T. Duchowski

  • Affiliations:
  • Clemson University;Clemson University;Clemson University

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 1st Conference on Novel Gaze-Controlled Applications
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Measuring consumers' overt visual attention through eye tracking is a useful method of assessing a package design's impact on likely buyer purchase patterns. To preserve ecological validity, subjects should remain immersed in a shopping context throughout the entire study. Immersion can be achieved through proper priming, environmental cues, and visual stimuli. While a complete physical store offers the most realistic environment, the use of projectors in creating a virtual environment is desirable for efficiency, cost, and flexibility reasons. Results are presented from a study comparing consumers' visual behavior in the presence of either virtual or physical shelving through eye movement performance and process metrics and their subjective impressions. Analysis suggests a difference in visual search performance between environments even though the perceived difference is negligible.