TY - GEN
T1 - Looking for genre
T2 - 4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium, IIiX 2012
AU - Clark, Malcolm
AU - Ruthven, Ian
AU - Holt, Patrik O.Brian
AU - Song, Dawei
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - This paper reports on our task-based observational, logged, questionnaire study and analysis of ocular behavior pertaining to the interaction of structural features of text in Wikipedia using eye tracking. We set natural and realistic tasks searching Wikipedia online focusing on examining which features and strategies (skimming or scanning) were the most important for the participants to complete their tasks. Our research, carried out on a group of 30 participants, highlighted their interactions with the structural areas within Wikipedia articles, the visual cues and features perceived during the searching of the Wiki text. We collected questionnaire and ocular behavior (fixation metrics) data to highlight the ways in which people view the features in the articles. We found that our participants' extensively interacted with layout features, such as tables, titles, bullet lists, contents lists, information boxes, and references. The eye tracking results showed that participants used the format and layout features and they also highlighted them as important. They were able to navigate to useful information consistently, and they were an effective means of locating relevant information for the completion of their tasks with some success. This work presents results which contribute to the long-term goals of studying the features for genre and theoretical perception research.
AB - This paper reports on our task-based observational, logged, questionnaire study and analysis of ocular behavior pertaining to the interaction of structural features of text in Wikipedia using eye tracking. We set natural and realistic tasks searching Wikipedia online focusing on examining which features and strategies (skimming or scanning) were the most important for the participants to complete their tasks. Our research, carried out on a group of 30 participants, highlighted their interactions with the structural areas within Wikipedia articles, the visual cues and features perceived during the searching of the Wiki text. We collected questionnaire and ocular behavior (fixation metrics) data to highlight the ways in which people view the features in the articles. We found that our participants' extensively interacted with layout features, such as tables, titles, bullet lists, contents lists, information boxes, and references. The eye tracking results showed that participants used the format and layout features and they also highlighted them as important. They were able to navigate to useful information consistently, and they were an effective means of locating relevant information for the completion of their tasks with some success. This work presents results which contribute to the long-term goals of studying the features for genre and theoretical perception research.
KW - Eye tracking
KW - Features
KW - Genre
KW - Perception
KW - Scanning
KW - Skimming
KW - Text
KW - Wikipedia
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84867463066&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/2362724.2362751
DO - 10.1145/2362724.2362751
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84867463066
SN - 9781450312820
T3 - IIiX 2012 - Proceedings 4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium: Behaviors, Interactions, Interfaces, Systems
SP - 145
EP - 154
BT - IIiX 2012 - Proceedings 4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium
Y2 - 21 August 2012 through 24 August 2012
ER -