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We conducted an eye-tracking study where 30 participants performed searches on the web. We measured their topical knowledge before and after each task. Their eye-fixations were labelled as "reading" or "scanning". The series of reading…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Nilavra Bhattacharya , Jacek Gwizdka

Eye movements during fixation of a stationary target prevent the adaptation of the photoreceptors to continuous illumination and inhibit fading of the image. These random, involuntary, small, movements are restricted at long time scales so…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jin-Rong Liang , Shay Moshel , Ari Z. Zivotofsky , Avi Caspi , Ralf Engbert , Reinhold Kliegl , Shlomo Havlin

Animals often forage via Levy walks stochastic trajectories with heavy tailed step lengths optimized for sparse resource environments. We show that human visual gaze follows similar dynamics when scanning images. While traditional models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Tejaswi V. Panchagnula

The use of eye-tracking techniques is becoming rapidly extended because of its relevance for acquiring information about cognition and behavior. Recent studies indicate that a correct characterization of the motion of the pupil inside the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2018-05-02 Sebastián Bouzat , María Luján Freije , Ana Laura Frapiccini , Gustavo Gasaneo

Eye movement patterns reflect human latent internal cognitive activities. We aim to discover eye movement patterns during face recognition under different cognitions of information concealing. These cognitions include the degrees of face…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-11-09 Jiaxu Zuo , Tom Gedeon , Zhenyue Qin

Visual search is a ubiquitous and often challenging daily task, exemplified by looking for the car keys at home or a friend in a crowd. An intriguing property of some classical search tasks is an asymmetry such that finding a target A among…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Shashi Kant Gupta , Mengmi Zhang , Chia-Chien Wu , Jeremy M. Wolfe , Gabriel Kreiman

This paper presents eye2vec, an infrastructure for analyzing software developers' eye movements while reading source code. In common eye-tracking studies in program comprehension, researchers must preselect analysis targets such as control…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Haruhiko Yoshioka , Kazumasa Shimari , Hidetake Uwano , Kenichi Matsumoto

Visually exploring the world around us is not a passive process. Instead, we actively explore the world and acquire visual information over time. Here, we present a new model for simulating human eye-movement behavior in dynamic real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Nicolas Roth , Pia Bideau , Olaf Hellwich , Martin Rolfs , Klaus Obermayer

In eye movement research in reading, the amount of data plays a crucial role for the validation of results. A methodological problem for the analysis of the eye movement in reading are blinks, when readers close their eyes. Blinking rate…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2009-11-13 M. S. Baptista , C. Bohn , R. Kliegl , R. Engbert , J. Kurths

The segmentation of a gaze trace into its constituent eye movements has been actively researched since the early days of eye tracking. As we move towards more naturalistic viewing conditions, the segmentation becomes even more challenging…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Ioannis Agtzidis , Mikhail Startsev , Michael Dorr

How do people look at art? Are there any differences between how experienced and inexperienced art viewers look at a painting? We approach these questions by analyzing and modeling eye movement data from a cognitive art research experiment,…

Applications · Statistics 2016-08-12 Anna-Kaisa Ylitalo , Aila Särkkä , Peter Guttorp

How people look at visual information reveals fundamental information about themselves, their interests and their state of mind. While previous visual attention models output static 2-dimensional saliency maps, saccadic models aim to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-16 Olivier Le Meur , Antoine Coutrot , Zhi Liu , Adrien Le Roch , Andrea Helo , Pia Rama

Although visual search appears largely random, several oculomotor biases exist such that the likelihoods of saccade directions and lengths depend on the previous scan path. Compared to the most recent fixations, the impact of the longer…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-23 Alex Szorkovszky , Rujeena Mathema , Pedro Lencastre , Pedro Lind , Anis Yazidi

We investigate hide-and-seek games on complex networks using a random walk framework. Specifically, we investigate the efficiency of various degree-biased random walk search strategies to locate items that are randomly hidden on a subset of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-02-20 Shubham Pandey , Reimer Kuehn

We examine how the saccade mechanism from biological vision can be used to make deep neural networks more efficient for classification and object detection problems. Our proposed approach is based on the ideas of attention-driven visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Saurabh Farkya , Zachary Daniels , Aswin Nadamuni Raghavan , David Zhang , Michael Piacentino

We present a novel approach for determining learners' second language proficiency which utilizes behavioral traces of eye movements during reading. Our approach provides stand-alone eyetracking based English proficiency scores which reflect…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Yevgeni Berzak , Boris Katz , Roger Levy

Some visual search tasks require to memorize the location of stimuli that have been previously scanned. Considerations about the eye movements raise the question of how we are able to maintain a coherent memory, despite the frequent…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Jérémy Fix , Julien Vitay , Nicolas Rougier

Even when we look at stationary objects, involuntarily our eyes perform miniature movements and do not stand perfectly still. Such fixational eye movements (FEM) can be decomposed into at least two components: rapid microsaccades and slow…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-03-03 Marco Rusconi , Stephanie Jainta , Hazel Blythe , Ralf Engbert

There is growing evidence that cognitive processes may have fractal structures as a signature of complexity. It is an an ongoing topic of research to study the class of complexity and how it may differ as a function of cognitive variables.…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2017-07-11 Mohammad Sharifi , Hamed Farahani , Farhad Shahbazi , Masood Sharifi , Christofer T. Kello , Marzieh Zare

Even during fixation the human eye is constantly in low amplitude motion, jittering over small angles in random directions at up to 100Hz. This motion results in all features of the image on the retina constantly traversing a number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 David W Arathorn , Josephine C. D'Angelo , Austin Roorda