TY - GEN
T1 - Gaze pattern and reading comprehension
AU - Vo, Tan
AU - Mendis, B. Sumudu U.
AU - Gedeon, Tom
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Does the way a person read influence the way they understand information or is it the other way around? In regard to reading of English text, just how much we can learn from a person's gaze pattern? It is known that while reading, we inadvertently form rational connections between pieces of information we pick up from the text. That reflects in certain disruptions in the norms of reading paradigm and that gives us clues to our interest level in reading activities. In this paper, we validate the above statement and then propose a novel method of detecting the level of engagement in reading based on a person's gaze-pattern. We organised some experiments in reading tasks of over thirty participants and the experimental outputs are classified with Artificial Neural Networks with an approximately 80 percent accuracy. The design of this approach is simple and computationally feasible enough to be applied in a real-life system. "Your eyes are the windows to your soul".
AB - Does the way a person read influence the way they understand information or is it the other way around? In regard to reading of English text, just how much we can learn from a person's gaze pattern? It is known that while reading, we inadvertently form rational connections between pieces of information we pick up from the text. That reflects in certain disruptions in the norms of reading paradigm and that gives us clues to our interest level in reading activities. In this paper, we validate the above statement and then propose a novel method of detecting the level of engagement in reading based on a person's gaze-pattern. We organised some experiments in reading tasks of over thirty participants and the experimental outputs are classified with Artificial Neural Networks with an approximately 80 percent accuracy. The design of this approach is simple and computationally feasible enough to be applied in a real-life system. "Your eyes are the windows to your soul".
KW - Artificial Neural Network
KW - Eye-gaze Pattern
KW - Grid-based Clustering
KW - SVM
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=78650218400&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-17534-3_16
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-17534-3_16
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 3642175333
SN - 9783642175336
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 124
EP - 131
BT - Neural Information Processing
T2 - 17th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2010
Y2 - 22 November 2010 through 25 November 2010
ER -