TY - GEN
T1 - Spotlights
T2 - 28th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, UIST 2015
AU - Lee, Byungjoo
AU - Oulasvirta, Antti
PY - 2015/11/6
Y1 - 2015/11/6
N2 - This demo presents Spotlights, a technique to facilitate skim reading, or the activity of rapidly comprehending long documents such as webpages or PDFs. Users mainly use continuous rate-based scrolling to skim. However, visual attention fails when scrolling rapidly due to excessive number of objects and brief exposure per object. Spotlights supports continuous scrolling at high speeds. It selects a small number of objects and raises them to transparent overlays (spotlights) in the viewer. Spotlights stay static for a prolonged time and then fade away. The technical contribution is novel method for "brokering" user's attentional resources in a way that guarantees sufficient attentional resources for some objects, even at very high scrolling rates. It facilitates visual attention by (1) decreasing the number of objects competing for divided attention and (2) by ensuring sufficient processing time per object.
AB - This demo presents Spotlights, a technique to facilitate skim reading, or the activity of rapidly comprehending long documents such as webpages or PDFs. Users mainly use continuous rate-based scrolling to skim. However, visual attention fails when scrolling rapidly due to excessive number of objects and brief exposure per object. Spotlights supports continuous scrolling at high speeds. It selects a small number of objects and raises them to transparent overlays (spotlights) in the viewer. Spotlights stay static for a prolonged time and then fade away. The technical contribution is novel method for "brokering" user's attentional resources in a way that guarantees sufficient attentional resources for some objects, even at very high scrolling rates. It facilitates visual attention by (1) decreasing the number of objects competing for divided attention and (2) by ensuring sufficient processing time per object.
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U2 - 10.1145/2815585.2817777
DO - 10.1145/2815585.2817777
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84962920624
T3 - UIST 2015 - Adjunct Publication of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
SP - 37
EP - 38
BT - UIST 2015 - Adjunct Publication of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Y2 - 8 November 2015 through 11 November 2015
ER -