EyeBookmark

Assisting Recovery from Interruption during Reading

Jaemin Jo, Bohyoung Kim, and Jinwook Seo / 2015

• Jaemin Jo, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
• Bohyoung Kim, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Yongin-si, Republic of Korea
• Jinwook Seo, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

In this paper, we present gaze-based bookmarking, EyeBookmark, to mitigate the deleterious effect of interruption during reading. The key idea of EyeBookmark is to provide a visual cue to help people decide where to resume reading. We design four highlighting methods and conduct a controlled user study with a proof-of-concept design to verify the usefulness of EyeBookmark. The user study demonstrates not only that participants preferred our highlighting methods but also that such highlighting methods significantly reduced the time taken to resume reading after interruption regardless of the difficulty of text.

• This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MSIP) (No. NRF-2014R1A2A2A03006998).