EyeWindows: evaluation of eye-controlled zooming windows for focus selection

In this paper, we present an attentive windowing technique that uses eye tracking, rather than manual pointing, for focus window selection. We evaluated the performance of 4 focus selection techniques: eye tracking with key activation, eye tracking with automatic activation, mouse and hotkeys in a typing task with many open windows. We also evaluated a zooming windowing technique designed specifically for eyebased control, comparing its performance to that of a standard tiled windowing environment. Results indicated that eye tracking with automatic activation was, on average, about twice as fast as mouse and hotkeys. Eye tracking with key activation was about 72% faster than manual conditions, and preferred by most participants. We believe eye input performed well because it allows manual input to be provided in parallel to focus selection tasks. Results also suggested that zooming windows outperform static tiled windows by about 30%. Furthermore, this performance gain scaled with the...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: CHI
• Authors: David Fono, Roel Vertegaal
• Keywords: CHI 2005, Eye Tracking, Human Computer Interaction, Key Activation, Zooming Windowing Technique