Using Eye Movements to Classify Search Strategies
- 1 September 1991
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Proceedings of the Human Factors Society Annual Meeting
- Vol. 35 (20) , 1476-1480
- https://doi.org/10.1177/154193129103502012
Abstract
This paper describes a study which employed eye tracking to investigate visually searching lists. An experiment was designed to test if “cognitive style” influences search strategies. We examined the search patterns of subjects as they viewed lists of sorted and randomly ordered columns. We found that cognitive style was a good predictor of the scanning strategies of ordered lists. For the unordered lists, efficient, systematic searching was performed by college students but not by high school students.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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