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CSC486 Lecture 08

CSC486 Lecture 08

Human-Computer Interaction
Visual Attention
(202502)

Javier Gonzalez-Sanchez

February 03, 2025
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  1. Dr. Javier Gonzalez-Sanchez [email protected] www.javiergs.info o ffi ce: 14 -227

    CSC 486 Human-Computer Interaction Lecture 08. Visual Attention
  2. What captures attention? • We only perceive a fr a

    ction of stimuli th a t enter our consciousness (Mor a n & Desimone, 1985) • M a ny stimuli enter our br a in without being detected consciously • [Surviv a l] w a s predic a ted on the a bility to e ff iciently loc a te critic a lly import a nt events in the surroundings. (Öhm a n, Flykt, & Esteves, 2001, p. 466). • There a re br a in regions th a t monitored the surrounding environment for critic a l stimuli (Cosmides & Tooby, 2013, p. 205). • We a re more likely to fe a r events a nd situ a tions th a t provided thre a ts to the surviv a l of our a ncestors, such a s potenti a lly de a dly pred a tors, heights, a nd wide open sp a ces, th a n to fe a r the most frequently encountered potenti a lly de a dly objects in our contempor a ry environment (Öhm a n & Minek a , 2001, p. 483) 8
  3. 7. Self-relevance: your name, your face, 19 Faces are equally

    as powerful as names (Tacikowski & Nowicka, 2010).
  4. 8. Goal-relevant: no-goal • People a re more likely to

    notice stimuli when they don’t h a ve a n a ctive go a l. Their cognitive lo a d is lower, which le a ves sp a re room for a ttention (C a rtwright- Finch & L a vie, 2007). • 20
  5. Part 1. Update your Software 27 2. Subscribe to Eye

    Tracking data (parse JSON) and store the data (CSV recommended)
  6. CSC 509 Software Engineering Javier Gonzalez-Sanchez, Ph.D. [email protected] Fall 2024

    Copyright. These slides can only be used as study material for the class CSC509 at Cal Poly. They cannot be distributed or used for another purpose.