Title: Evaluation of gaze-added target selection methods suitable for general GUIs

Authors: A. Monden, K. Matsumoto, M. Yamato

Addresses: Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5, Takayama, Ikoma, Nara 630-0101, Japan. ' Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5, Takayama, Ikoma, Nara 630-0101, Japan. ' Red Hat Japan, Inc., Shinkanda Building 3F, 2-15-2, Sotokanda, Chiyodaku, Tokyo 101-0021, Japan

Abstract: This paper examines three gaze-added methods, the Auto, Manual, and SemiAuto, that have a potential to increase the efficiency of target selection operations in general GUI environments such as MS-Windows and Mac-OS. These three methods employ the human|s eye gaze and a hand (mouse operation) together to enable users to select a target even if the jittery motions of an eye and the measurement error of an eye-tracking device have occurred. The result of the experiment under an environment in which small targets are placed in a narrow layout showed that the operational efficiency with the SemiAuto method was the best among three methods; and, the SemiAuto method was the same or faster than the mouse-only operation without increasing errors greatly. Especially concerning the discontinuous selection situation (a target selection whose cursor position is randomly located), the operation with the SemiAuto method was about 31% faster than the mouse-only operation.

Keywords: human-computer interaction; HCI; user interface design; eye-gaze interface; eye tracking device; desktop environment; mouse operation; input device; usability; target selection; GUI; measurement accuracy.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCAT.2005.007201

International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology, 2005 Vol.24 No.1, pp.17 - 24

Published online: 23 Jun 2005 *

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