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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Visual Perception

Background:

  • Attentional selection is crucial for visual search, guiding focus to relevant items.
  • Interactive search involves manipulating objects to find targets, extending traditional visual search.
  • Understanding attentional drivers in interactive search is key to optimizing user experience and task efficiency.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the primary drivers of attentional selection during interactive visual search.
  • To determine how object interaction effort and complexity affect attentional deployment.
  • To explore the relationship between perceived difficulty and target detection in interactive search.

Main Methods:

  • Conducted two interactive search experiments using virtual cubes with embedded T-shaped targets.
  • Manipulated the physical effort required to rotate cubes in Experiment 1.
  • Varied the number of shapes on cubes to alter interaction complexity in Experiment 2.

Main Results:

  • Perceived effort in interacting with objects strongly influences attentional selection in interactive search.
  • Increased difficulty in examining objects (e.g., higher rotation effort, more shapes) can lead to slower target detection.
  • Findings suggest that cognitive load associated with interaction impacts visual attention deployment.

Conclusions:

  • Perceived interaction effort is a significant factor in attentional selection during interactive search.
  • Designers should consider minimizing interaction effort to improve search efficiency.
  • This study provides foundational insights into the cognitive mechanisms underlying interactive search behavior.