Impact of Design Decisions in Scanpath Modeling

Modeling visual saliency in graphical user interfaces (GUIs) allows to understand how people perceive GUI designs and what elements attract their attention. One aspect that is often overlooked is the fact that computational models depend on a series of design parameters that are not straightforward to decide. We systematically analyze how different design parameters affect scanpath evaluation metrics using a state-of-the-art computational model (DeepGaze++). We particularly focus on three design parameters: input image size, inhibition-of-return decay, and masking radius. We show that even small variations of these design parameters have a noticeable impact on standard evaluation metrics such as DTW or Eyenalysis. These effects also occur in other scanpath models, such as UMSS and ScanGAN, and in other datasets such as MASSVIS. Taken together, our results put forward the impact of design decisions for predicting users’ viewing behavior on GUIs.

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Computer Vision, Deep Learning, Eye Tracking, Interaction Design, Visual Saliency

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Emami, P, Jiang, Y, Guo, Z & Leiva, L A 2024, 'Impact of Design Decisions in Scanpath Modeling', Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, vol. 8, 228. https://doi.org/10.1145/3655602

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