CS295J/Literature class 3.11

• Now Where Was I? Psychologically-Triggered Bookmarking, Pan et al., CHI '11

Presents an interaction paradigm for implicitly bookmarking application progress/media during user interruptions (e.g., phone ringing) using galvanic skin response (GSR) to identify interruptions, or the orienting response (OR), automatically. The authors evaluate how well GSR works for identifying user ORs, and describe a few experiments using an audiobook listener application that creates bookmarks (stored and represented in a GUI) automatically when GSR peaks in response to controlled stimuli. In our project, we're looking at predicting user states (or effect on task performance), so this is an example of that kind of predictive affect-tracking that has been engineered into a usability feature. (Owner: Steven Gomez 17:13, 19 September 2011 (EDT))

• Data Visualization Optimization Computational Modeling of Perception Ware-2011-TVCG

This paper presents a computational model of human vision that can be used to optimize and evaluate visualization systems. I think this is a great example of the application of cognitive modeling on visualization. (Owner: Hua, Sep.19, 2011)