Adaptive Information Visualization - Predicting user characteristics and task context from eye gaze.

Our research aims to design information visualization systems that adapt to each individual user’s characteristics and task context. In order to provide such Adaptive Information Visualizations, the first step is to predict these characteristics and context from a number of real-time measures. In particular, this paper presents initial results from an eye tracking user study, providing evidence that a user’s eye gaze can indeed be used for predicting a user’s task context and cognitive abilities.