Gaze Transitions as Clues to Expert-Novice Strategy Differences in a Dynamic Video Game

Many important and vital tasks entail dynamic decision making over prolonged periods of time in situations where “even hesitating requires a decision to hesitate” [1]. Although many such tasks are difficult to study without interfering or modifying, there is a category of these tasks, namely video games, which can be brought into the lab without harm to persons or to realism. In this report, we find significant differences in gaze transition probabilities between expert and novice TetrisTM players and present a novel visualization for two sets of transitions that suggest strategy differences in how the game is played.