Inverse Foraging: Inferring Users' Interest in Pervasive Displays
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Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, Volume 5, issue 3
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Users' engagement with pervasive displays has been extensively studied, however, determining how their content is interesting remains an open problem. Tracking of body postures and gaze has been explored as an indication of attention; still, existing works have not been able to estimate the interest of passers-by from readily available data, such as the display viewing time. This article presents a simple yet accurate method of estimating users' interest in multiple content items shown at the same time on displays. The proposed approach builds on the information foraging theory, which assumes that users optimally decide on the content they consume. Through inverse foraging, the parameters of a foraging model are fitted to the values of viewing times observed in practice, to yield estimates of user interest. Different foraging models are evaluated by using synthetic data and with a controlled user study. The results demonstrate that inverse foraging accurately estimates interest, achieving an R2 above 70% in comparison to self-reported interest. As a consequence, the proposed solution allows to dynamically adapt the content shown on pervasive displays, based on viewing data that can be easily obtained in field deployments.Description
Funding Information: This work was partially supported by: the Academy of Finland under grants number 326346, 332307, 328813 and 318559; the Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence; and the Finnish Foundation for Technology Promotion. The authors would like to thank Emilio López for his help in implementing the pervasive display prototype and the CSC – IT Center for Science for provisioning the computational resources used in the study. Publisher Copyright: © 2021 Owner/Author.
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Freire, M L M, Oulasvirta, A & Di Francesco, M 2021, 'Inverse Foraging : Inferring Users' Interest in Pervasive Displays', Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, vol. 5, no. 3, 122. https://doi.org/10.1145/3478103