Using eye movements to recognize activities on cartographic maps

  • Authors:
  • Peter Kiefer;Ioannis Giannopoulos;Martin Raubal

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation, Zurich, Switzerland;Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation, Zurich, Switzerland;Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation, Zurich, Switzerland

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 21st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

The spatio-temporal characteristics of eye movements vary according to the activity the user of a cartographic map is performing. In this paper, we use these eye movement characteristics to automatically detect the map user's activity, an approach with great potential in gaze-assistive map interfaces. A dataset of 587 eye movement recordings from 17 participants was used to train and cross-validate a support vector machine (SVM) classifier over 229 features. The classifier can distinguish 6 common map activities with an accuracy of approx. 78%.