Differences of Recognizing the Scenes and Histograms: An Eye Tracking Study

Abstract

It is a very interesting question whether there are cognitive differences when subjects recognizing scenes and histograms. To address this issue, the study using eye tracking investigated the saccade distance, fixation duration, fixation count, mean fixation duration and pupil diameter when people recognizing the two type tasks. As is shown in the results, there exits cognitive differences in the information processing, eye movement patterns and mental overload. Keywords-scene; histogram; information processing; eye tracking