User performance with gaze contingent multiresolutional displays

ABSTRACT

One way to economize on bandwidth in single-user head-mounted displays is to put high-resolution information only where the user is currently looking. This paper summarizes results from a series of 6 studies investigating spatial, resolutional, and temporal parameters affecting perception and performance in such eye-contingent multi-resolutional displays. Based on the results of these studies, suggestions are made for the design of eye-contingent multi-resolutional displays.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.2 User Interfaces (D.2.2, H.1.2, I.3.6)
          Subjects: User-centered design

Additional Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.2 User Interfaces (D.2.2, H.1.2, I.3.6)
          Subjects: Evaluation/methodology; Windowing systems; Screen design (e.g., text, graphics, color)

  I. Computing Methodologies
  I.4 IMAGE PROCESSING AND COMPUTER VISION

General Terms:
Design, Experimentation, Human Factors, Management, Measurement, Performance, Theory

Keywords:
bandwidth, dual-resolution displays, eye movements, eyetracking, multiresolutional displays, peripheral vision, visual perception, wavelets