TY - CHAP U1 - Konferenzveröffentlichung A1 - Liegl, Simone A1 - Fritsch, Raphael A1 - Tullius, Gabriela ED - Pehar, Franjo T1 - Where Is Waldo? Visual search behavior in "Wimmelpictures" T2 - Re:inventing information science in the networked society : proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Information Science (ISI 2015), Zadar, Croatia, 19th - 21st May 2015 N2 - In order to explore an image, the human eye functions like a spotlight, scanning the content from one object to the next. This visual search behavior is implemented with the help of attention control. The following work surveys the visual search behavior in "Wimmelpictures", a special type of busy pictures. The research objective is to analyze different search strategies and to work out possible differences concerning age and gender. The university experiment is carried out by an eye tracker that records the fixations and saccades of the test persons. The results indicate three forms of search strategy: based on a pattern, based on feature selection, or a mixture of both. Our data shows the search for special features of the target is the most successful. Furthermore there are no differences concerning gender but some concerning age. All age groups need more time to locate the target with an increasing number of distractors in the image. The size of the target is also relevant as a larger target is found more quickly than the smaller one. KW - visual search behavior KW - Wimmelpictures KW - eye tracking Y1 - 2015 UN - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:rt2-opus4-8745 SN - 978-3-76488-081-0 SB - 978-3-76488-081-0 U6 - https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17951 DO - https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17951 SP - 320 EP - 325 S1 - 6 PB - vwh CY - Glückstadt ER -