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  • Vision Science
  • Human-Computer Interaction

Background:

  • Scanpath analysis, the study of eye movement sequences, is increasingly used in visual and cognitive processing research.
  • Current scanpath comparison methods need evaluation, especially for variable scanpaths and their relation to traditional oculomotor statistics.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the performance of the MultiMatch scanpath comparison method.
  • To determine if MultiMatch supplements traditional oculomotor analyses.
  • To assess scanpath variability under manipulated task difficulty.

Main Methods:

  • A visual search task required participants to fixate targets in a specific order.
  • Task difficulty was manipulated via target visibility (font, distractors, noise).
  • Scanpath similarity and individual oculomotor statistics were analyzed using MultiMatch.

Main Results:

  • Increased task difficulty led to slower search and more fixations.
  • Scanpath similarity between participants decreased with higher difficulty, indicating more heterogeneous gaze patterns.
  • Fixation durations along aligned vectors became more similar between participants under increased difficulty.

Conclusions:

  • MultiMatch effectively captures changes in scanpath variability with task difficulty.
  • Scanpath heterogeneity increases with task difficulty, suggesting divergent or random eye-movement strategies.
  • Fixation duration similarity offers complementary insights, highlighting the nuanced application of scanpath metrics in vision science.