Digit eyes: Learning-related changes in information access in a computer game parallel those of oculomotor attention in laboratory studies
- 24 April 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics
- Vol. 82 (5), 2434-2447
- https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-020-02019-w
Abstract
Active sensing theory is founded upon the dynamic relationship between information sampling and an observer’s evolving goals. Oculomotor activity is a well studied method of sampling; a mouse or a keyboard can also be used to access information past the current screen. We examine information access patterns of StarCraft 2 players at multiple skill levels. The first measures are analogous to existing eye-movement studies: fixation frequency, fixation targets, and fixation duration all change as a function of skill, and are commensurate with known properties of eye movements in learning. Actions that require visual attention at moderate skill levels are eventually performed with little visual attention at all. This (a) confirms the generalizability of laboratory studies of attention and learning using eye movements to digital interface use, and (b) suggests that a wide variety of information access behaviors may be considered as a unified set of phenomena.Keywords
Funding Information
- Discovery Grant - NSERC (327301)
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