RecGaze: The First Eye Tracking and User Interaction Dataset for Carousel Interfaces

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Auteurs principaux: de Leon-Martinez, Santiago, Kang, Jingwei, Moro, Robert, de Rijke, Maarten, Kveton, Branislav, Oosterhuis, Harrie, Bielikova, Maria
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author de Leon-Martinez, Santiago
Kang, Jingwei
Moro, Robert
de Rijke, Maarten
Kveton, Branislav
Oosterhuis, Harrie
Bielikova, Maria
author_facet de Leon-Martinez, Santiago
Kang, Jingwei
Moro, Robert
de Rijke, Maarten
Kveton, Branislav
Oosterhuis, Harrie
Bielikova, Maria
contents Carousel interfaces are widely used in e-commerce and streaming services, but little research has been devoted to them. Previous studies of interfaces for presenting search and recommendation results have focused on single ranked lists, but it appears their results cannot be extrapolated to carousels due to the added complexity. Eye tracking is a highly informative approach to understanding how users click, yet there are no eye tracking studies concerning carousels. There are very few interaction datasets on recommenders with carousel interfaces and none that contain gaze data. We introduce the RecGaze dataset: the first comprehensive feedback dataset on carousels that includes eye tracking results, clicks, cursor movements, and selection explanations. The dataset comprises of interactions from 3 movie selection tasks with 40 different carousel interfaces per user. In total, 87 users and 3,477 interactions are logged. In addition to the dataset, its description and possible use cases, we provide results of a survey on carousel design and the first analysis of gaze data on carousels, which reveals a golden triangle or F-pattern browsing behavior. Our work seeks to advance the field of carousel interfaces by providing the first dataset with eye tracking results on carousels. In this manner, we provide and encourage an empirical understanding of interactions with carousel interfaces, for building better recommender systems through gaze information, and also encourage the development of gaze-based recommenders.
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de Leon-Martinez, Santiago
Kang, Jingwei
Moro, Robert
de Rijke, Maarten
Kveton, Branislav
Oosterhuis, Harrie
Bielikova, Maria
Information Retrieval
Human-Computer Interaction
Carousel interfaces are widely used in e-commerce and streaming services, but little research has been devoted to them. Previous studies of interfaces for presenting search and recommendation results have focused on single ranked lists, but it appears their results cannot be extrapolated to carousels due to the added complexity. Eye tracking is a highly informative approach to understanding how users click, yet there are no eye tracking studies concerning carousels. There are very few interaction datasets on recommenders with carousel interfaces and none that contain gaze data. We introduce the RecGaze dataset: the first comprehensive feedback dataset on carousels that includes eye tracking results, clicks, cursor movements, and selection explanations. The dataset comprises of interactions from 3 movie selection tasks with 40 different carousel interfaces per user. In total, 87 users and 3,477 interactions are logged. In addition to the dataset, its description and possible use cases, we provide results of a survey on carousel design and the first analysis of gaze data on carousels, which reveals a golden triangle or F-pattern browsing behavior. Our work seeks to advance the field of carousel interfaces by providing the first dataset with eye tracking results on carousels. In this manner, we provide and encourage an empirical understanding of interactions with carousel interfaces, for building better recommender systems through gaze information, and also encourage the development of gaze-based recommenders.
title RecGaze: The First Eye Tracking and User Interaction Dataset for Carousel Interfaces
topic Information Retrieval
Human-Computer Interaction
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.20792