Quieting the Cobwebs: Browser Interaction for Visual Floaters
摘要
Floaters, cobweb-like shadows that move around a person's visual field, impair vision for nearly 33% of the population, yet have limited treatment options. Floaters especially harm screen use, since they reduce contrast, introduce clutter, and add moving distractions. While existing high-contrast tools offer some help, few address the motion that makes screen use with floaters uniquely difficult. In this paper, we build a floater simulation inspired by the physics of the eye, use it to quantitatively assess text readability at varying levels of motion, and build a novel web extension that minimizes eye movement, maximizing the signal-to-noise ratio of performing browser tasks. Importantly, our tool works not only for text, but for all UI elements, requiring no modifications to existing websites.
引用
@article{arxiv.2605.12739,
title = {Quieting the Cobwebs: Browser Interaction for Visual Floaters},
author = {Kenneth Ge and Jinglin Li and Shikhar Ahuja},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.12739},
year = {2026}
}