Eye-tracking verification of the strategy used to analyse algorithms expressed in a flowchart and pseudocode

Andrzejewska, Magdalena; Stolińska, Anna; Błasiak, Władysław; Pęczkowski, Paweł; Rosiek, Roman; Rożek, Bożena; Sajka, Mirosława; Wcisło, Dariusz

doi:10.1080/10494820.2015.1073746

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“…provides detailed information on the use of heat maps, along with examples and the participants responses to their heat maps. Also some examples of heat maps can be found in [BSB11,DSLS+14,ASB+15,JF15,SUGGR15,MNH+17]. Other eye-tracking data can be presented in the form of a gaze plot, which can help in visualizing the scan path by displaying the eye gaze data for each stimulus in a static viewpoint Sharif and Maletic (2010b).…”

Section: Attention Switchingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Some samples where discarded due to technical issues with the eye-tracking device [BMST06a], data corruption [BT07a, SFM12, DSLS+14], participants withdrawing from the experiment [BT07b, FBM+14] or they were unfit for the experiment [ASGA12,ASB+15]. In the last column of Table 10, the gender of the participants is listed if it was mentioned by the researcher.…”

Section: [Rq4:] Who Were the Subjects Of Eye-tracking Experiments In mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…• Fixation Count: Defined as the total number of eye fixations on a specific area, and can be interpreted as an indication to the importance of an area Bednarik et al (2006a); Andrzejewska et al (2016); . A higher fixation count on a specific area indicates more interest in that part, and suggests more effort spent in solving the task Sharif and Maletic (2010b).…”

Section: Measures Related To the Number Of Fixationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…• Type of representation in experiments that studied the effect of representation on participants' performance [RLCdB02,PG10,SMS+13,ASB+15].…”

Section: Independent Variablementioning

confidence: 99%

“…To understand the differences in coding activities between kids (age [8][9][10][11][12]) and teens (age [13][14][15][16][17]), the eye movements of 44 students were recorded while working on Scratch tool Resnick et al (2009) .…”

Section: Samples Divided Based On Performancementioning

confidence: 99%

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A Survey on the Usage of Eye-Tracking in Computer Programming

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Traditional quantitative research methods of data collection in programming, such as questionnaires and interviews, are the most common approaches for researchers in this field. However, in recent years, eye-tracking has been on the rise as a new method of collecting evidence of visual attention and the cognitive process of programmers. Eyetracking has been used by researchers in the field of programming to analyze and understand a variety of tasks such as comprehension and debugging. In this paper, we will focus on reporting how experiments that used eye-trackers in programming research are conducted, and the information that can be collected from these experiments. In this mapping study, we identify and report on 63 studies, published between 1990 and June 2017, collected and gathered via manual search on digital libraries and databases related to computer science and computer engineering. Among the five main areas of research interest are program comprehension and debugging, which received an increased interest in recent years, non-code comprehension, collaborative programming and requirements traceability research, which had the fewest number of publications due to possible limitations of the eye-tracking technology in this type of experiments. We find that most of the participants in these studies were students and faculty members from institutions of higher learning, and while they performed programming tasks on a range of programming languages and programming representations, we find Java language and UML representation to be the most used materials. We also report on a range of eye-trackers and attention tracking tools that have been utilized, and find Tobii eye-trackers to be the most used devices by researchers.

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Section: Attention Switchingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: [Rq4:] Who Were the Subjects Of Eye-tracking Experiments In mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Measures Related To the Number Of Fixationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…• Type of representation in experiments that studied the effect of representation on participants' performance [RLCdB02,PG10,SMS+13,ASB+15].…”

Section: Independent Variablementioning

confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%