Spatial Gaze Markers: Supporting Effective Task Switching in Augmented Reality

TY - GEN

T1 - Spatial Gaze Markers

T2 - Supporting Effective Task Switching in Augmented Reality

AU - Lystbæk, Mathias Nørhede

AU - Pfeuffer, Ken

AU - Langlotz, Tobias

AU - Grønbæk, Jens Emil

AU - Gellersen, Hans

PY - 2024/5

Y1 - 2024/5

N2 - Task switching can occur frequently in daily routines with physical activity. In this paper, we introduce Spatial Gaze Markers, an augmented reality tool to support users in immediately returning to the last point of interest after an attention shift. The tool is task-agnostic, using only eye-tracking information to infer distinct points of visual attention and to mark the corresponding area in the physical environment. We present a user study that evaluates the effectiveness of Spatial Gaze Markers in simulated physical repair and inspection tasks against a no-marker baseline. The results give insights into how Spatial Gaze Markers affect user performance, task load, and experience of users with varying levels of task type and distractions. Our work is relevant to assist physical workers with simple AR techniques and render task switching faster with less effort.

AB - Task switching can occur frequently in daily routines with physical activity. In this paper, we introduce Spatial Gaze Markers, an augmented reality tool to support users in immediately returning to the last point of interest after an attention shift. The tool is task-agnostic, using only eye-tracking information to infer distinct points of visual attention and to mark the corresponding area in the physical environment. We present a user study that evaluates the effectiveness of Spatial Gaze Markers in simulated physical repair and inspection tasks against a no-marker baseline. The results give insights into how Spatial Gaze Markers affect user performance, task load, and experience of users with varying levels of task type and distractions. Our work is relevant to assist physical workers with simple AR techniques and render task switching faster with less effort.

KW - augmented Reality (AR)

KW - eye-tracking

KW - gaze interaction

KW - task switching

KW - attention switching

KW - augmented reality

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85194884079&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1145/3613904.3642811

DO - 10.1145/3613904.3642811

M3 - Article in proceedings

SN - 979-8-4007-0330-0

BT - CHI 2024 - Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Sytems

A2 - Mueller, Florian

A2 - Kyburz, Penny

A2 - Williamson, Julie

A2 - Sas, Corina

A2 - Wilson, Max

A2 - Dugas, Phoebe

A2 - Shklovski, Irina

PB - Association for Computing Machinery

ER -