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  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,867 Views
20 Pages

17 May 2023

In sentiment analysis, biased user reviews can have a detrimental impact on a company’s evaluation. Therefore, identifying such users can be highly beneficial as their reviews are not based on reality but on their characteristics rooted in thei...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,701 Views
26 Pages

The extensive use of smartphones in our everyday lives has created new modes of appropriation and behavior in public spaces. Recognition of these are essential for urban design and planning practices which help us to improve the relationship between...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,661 Views
13 Pages

The Influence of In-Store Recycling Signage on Consumer Behavior: A Study of Visual Attention and Usage of Store Drop-Off Bins

  • Mengmeng Zhao,
  • Shannon Anderson,
  • Rupert Andrew Hurley,
  • Sheila Anzures,
  • Paul Nowak and
  • Kelly Burt

10 April 2024

This study examined the impact of using three types of in-store signage to educate consumers about packaging recyclability as well as to measure its effectiveness in increasing awareness of a store drop-off recycling method for packaged granola. A to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
251 Views
22 Pages

Behavioral Engagement in VR-Based Sign Language Learning: Visual Attention as a Predictor of Performance and Temporal Dynamics

  • Davide Traini,
  • José Manuel Alcalde-Llergo,
  • Mariana Buenestado-Fernández,
  • Domenico Ursino and
  • Enrique Yeguas-Bolívar

Understanding how learners engage with immersive sign language training environments is essential for advancing virtual reality-based education and inclusion. This study analyzes behavioral engagement in SONAR, a virtual reality application designed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
1,129 Views
11 Pages

Effect of a Visual Tracking Intervention on Attention and Behavior of Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

  • Shiva Janmohammadi,
  • Hojjat Allah Haghgoo,
  • Mojgan Farahbod,
  • Paul G. Overton and
  • Ebrahim Pishyareh

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is characterized by several cognitive and behavioral problems such as inattention and impulsivity, abnormal control of eye movements and relocation, visual fixation and visuospatial perception. There is a link...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,490 Views
16 Pages

Driving Fatigue Onset and Visual Attention: An Electroencephalography-Driven Analysis of Ocular Behavior in a Driving Simulation Task

  • Andrea Giorgi,
  • Gianluca Borghini,
  • Francesca Colaiuda,
  • Stefano Menicocci,
  • Vincenzo Ronca,
  • Alessia Vozzi,
  • Dario Rossi,
  • Pietro Aricò,
  • Rossella Capotorto and
  • Gianluca Di Flumeri
  • + 6 authors

13 November 2024

Attentional deficits have tragic consequences on road safety. These deficits are not solely caused by distraction, since they can also arise from other mental impairments such as, most frequently, mental fatigue. Fatigue is among the most prevalent i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,489 Views
27 Pages

14 May 2025

Understanding how children engage with others is crucial for improving social interactions, especially when one of the partners is an animal. We investigated relationships between interaction strategies, visual attention, and facial expression identi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,525 Views
20 Pages

The Role of Visual Attention and Quality Cues in Consumer Purchase Decisions for Fresh and Cooked Beef: An Eye-Tracking Study

  • Bruna Alves Malheiros,
  • Eduardo Eugênio Spers,
  • Carmen Josefina Contreras Castillo,
  • Carolina Naves Aroeira and
  • Lilian Maluf de Lima

30 June 2025

This study analyzes Brazilian consumer behavior regarding quality and visual cues in fresh red meat and cooked beef. Using eye tracking to collect visual attention metrics and psychological scales to assess food behavior, the research examines how vi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
6,634 Views
13 Pages

27 August 2018

The beautiful, natural environment in a tourist hotel’s marketing images can evoke relaxing and soothing emotions. However, can tourist hotels use nature as a servicescape to make their performing arts services more attractive? Based on attention res...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,452 Views
21 Pages

31 July 2025

Accurate evaluation of fish feeding intensity is crucial for optimizing aquaculture efficiency and the healthy growth of fish. Previous methods mainly rely on single-modal approaches (e.g., audio or visual). However, the complex underwater environmen...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,539 Views
24 Pages

21 December 2024

(1) Background: As digital technology continues to reshape visual landscapes, understanding how design elements influence customer experience has become essential. Eye-tracking technology offers a powerful, quantitative approach to assessing visibili...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
12,922 Views
21 Pages

This study aims to bridge the gap between traditional consumer behavior analysis and modern techniques by integrating big data analysis, eye-tracking technology, and survey methods. The researchers considered that understanding consumer behavior is c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,514 Views
15 Pages

Fake-News Attitude Evaluation in Terms of Visual Attention and Personality Traits: A Preliminary Study for Mitigating the Cognitive Warfare

  • Stefano Menicocci,
  • Viviana Lupo,
  • Silvia Ferrara,
  • Andrea Giorgi,
  • Eleonora Serra,
  • Fabio Babiloni and
  • Gianluca Borghini

1 November 2024

Although the Internet grants access to a large amount of information, it is crucial to verify its reliability before relying on it. False information is a dangerous medium that poses a considerable threat, as it impacts individuals’ perceptions...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,909 Views
16 Pages

24 February 2021

It is essential to understand the effectiveness of any training program so it can be improved accordingly. Various studies have applied standard metrics for the evaluation of visual behavior to recognize the areas of interest that attract individuals...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,033 Views
53 Pages

24 December 2024

Eye-tracking technologies are emerging in research aiming to understand the visual behavior of cyclists to improve their safety. These technologies gather real-time information to reveal what the cyclists look at and how they respond at a specific lo...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,183 Views
17 Pages

25 January 2020

During highly automated driving, the passenger is allowed to conduct non-driving related activities (NDRA) and no longer has to act as a fallback at the functional limits of the driving automation system. Previous research has shown that at lower lev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
90 Citations
14,598 Views
17 Pages

A Computer-Vision Based Application for Student Behavior Monitoring in Classroom

  • Bui Ngoc Anh,
  • Ngo Tung Son,
  • Phan Truong Lam,
  • Le Phuong Chi,
  • Nguyen Huu Tuan,
  • Nguyen Cong Dat,
  • Nguyen Huu Trung,
  • Muhammad Umar Aftab and
  • Tran Van Dinh

6 November 2019

Automated learning analytics is becoming an essential topic in the educational area, which needs effective systems to monitor the learning process and provides feedback to the teacher. Recent advances in visual sensors and computer vision methods ena...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,155 Views
20 Pages

11 September 2025

Sustainable tourism requires balancing environmental protection, social equity, and economic viability, yet its effective promotion depends on communication strategies that genuinely capture travelers’ attention. Despite growing emphasis on eco...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
8,918 Views
30 Pages

9 January 2023

High-profile projects promoted by governments, local municipalities, and the media do not always meet program requirements or user expectations. The Riverside Museum in Glasgow by Zaha Hadid Architects, which has generated significant discussion in t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Citations
10,424 Views
20 Pages

12 September 2019

Nutrition and health claims are seen as a way of promoting healthy aspects of food. However, the results of previous studies have been contradictory regarding the effect of these claims on purchase. This study aims to achieve a better understanding o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,668 Views
19 Pages

Training Improves Avoidance of Natural Sick Faces: Changes in Visual Attention and Approach Decisions

  • Tiffany S. Leung,
  • Krisztina V. Jakobsen,
  • Sarah E. Maylott,
  • Arushi Malik,
  • Shuo Zhang and
  • Elizabeth A. Simpson

Humans evolved a behavioral immune system to avoid infectious disease, including the ability to detect sickness in faces. However, it is unclear whether the ability to recognize and avoid facial cues of disease is malleable, flexibly calibrated by ex...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
7,076 Views
19 Pages

Drivers’ Visual Attention Characteristics under Different Cognitive Workloads: An On-Road Driving Behavior Study

  • Yanli Ma,
  • Shouming Qi,
  • Yaping Zhang,
  • Guan Lian,
  • Weixin Lu and
  • Ching-Yao Chan

In this study, an on-road driving experiment was designed to investigate the visual attention fixation and transition characteristics of drivers when they are under different cognitive workloads. First, visual attention was macroscopically analyzed t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,209 Views
16 Pages

Virtual reality (VR) has proven an effective means of job training for people with intellectual disabilities who may experience difficulties in learning. However, it is unlikely for them to successfully complete a certain task using only VR-based job...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,376 Views
20 Pages

Displays for Productive Non-Driving Related Tasks: Visual Behavior and Its Impact in Conditionally Automated Driving

  • Clemens Schartmüller,
  • Klemens Weigl,
  • Andreas Löcken,
  • Philipp Wintersberger,
  • Marco Steinhauser and
  • Andreas Riener

(1) Background: Primary driving tasks are increasingly being handled by vehicle automation so that support for non-driving related tasks (NDRTs) is becoming more and more important. In SAE L3 automation, vehicles can require the driver-passenger to t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,766 Views
19 Pages

Combining Virtual Reality and Organizational Neuroscience for Leadership Assessment

  • Elena Parra,
  • Irene Alice Chicchi Giglioli,
  • Jestine Philip,
  • Lucia Amalia Carrasco-Ribelles,
  • Javier Marín-Morales and
  • Mariano Alcañiz Raya

26 June 2021

In this article, we introduce three-dimensional Serious Games (3DSGs) under an evidence-centered design (ECD) framework and use an organizational neuroscience-based eye-tracking measure to capture implicit behavioral signals associated with leadershi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,203 Views
15 Pages

31 August 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic started toward the end of 2019 and social distancing requirements imposed worldwide led to the rapid growth of online shopping, adversely impacted the global efforts for environmental protection. This study examines packaging an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,870 Views
19 Pages

Recognizing and Looking at Masked Emotional Faces in Alexithymia

  • Marla Fuchs,
  • Anette Kersting,
  • Thomas Suslow and
  • Charlott Maria Bodenschatz

18 April 2024

Alexithymia is a clinically relevant personality construct characterized by difficulties identifying and communicating one’s emotions and externally oriented thinking. Alexithymia has been found to be related to poor emotion decoding and dimini...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,719 Views
22 Pages

In the Eye of the Beholder—Visual Search Behavior in Equestrian Dressage Judges

  • Inga Wolframm,
  • Peter Reuter,
  • Iulia Zaharia and
  • Johannes Vernooij

9 July 2024

This study investigated the visual search behavior of equestrian dressage judges at different expertise levels during the assessment of Grand Prix horse-rider combinations. Twenty judges (11 foundational level, 9 advanced level) participated in the s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,021 Views
21 Pages

Wayfinding with minimal effort is essential for reducing cognitive load and emotional stress in unfamiliar environments. This exploratory quasi-experimental study investigated wayfinding challenges in a university building housing three spatially dis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
465 Views
30 Pages

2 January 2026

Visual attention mechanisms are modulated by chromatic properties of the environment, with significant implications for human–computer interaction, interface design, and cognitive ergonomics. Despite extensive research on color perception, a cr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
422 Views
14 Pages

9 January 2026

Virtual reality (VR) provides immersive environments that resemble real-world consumption settings, enabling realistic analysis of consumer responses to advertisements. Therefore, VR has been increasingly adopted in marketing. Visual attention is a k...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,288 Views
24 Pages

1 April 2025

(1) Background: This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to assess the reliability and consistency of the impact of gaze behaviors (e.g., QE duration, FFD, FD) on basketball shooting performance. (2) Methods: Searches were conducted in PubMed,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,985 Views
18 Pages

Saliency-Based Gaze Visualization for Eye Movement Analysis

  • Sangbong Yoo,
  • Seongmin Jeong,
  • Seokyeon Kim and
  • Yun Jang

30 July 2021

Gaze movement and visual stimuli have been utilized to analyze human visual attention intuitively. Gaze behavior studies mainly show statistical analyses of eye movements and human visual attention. During these analyses, eye movement data and the sa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,794 Views
19 Pages

An EEG Study of the Influence of Target Appearing in the Upper and Lower Visual Fields on Brain Attention Resource Allocation

  • Han Li,
  • Jialin Xu,
  • Junpeng Sheng,
  • Huilin Zhou,
  • Zhen Liu,
  • Yahui Li,
  • Jingyan Hu and
  • Guokun Zuo

Visuospatial selective attention can focus attention on a certain spatial area and rationally allocate attentional resources during visual target perception. Previous studies investigated the behavioral advantages of subjects when the target appeared...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,456 Views
15 Pages

Perceptual, Not Attentional, Guidance Drives Happy Superiority in Complex Visual Search

  • Sjoerd M. Stuit,
  • M. Alejandra Pardo Sanchez and
  • David Terburg

24 January 2025

Emotional facial expressions are thought to attract attention differentially based on their emotional content. While anger is thought to attract the most attention during visual search, happy superiority effects are reported as well. As multiple stud...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,708 Views
22 Pages

Visual attention plays a crucial role in the map-reading process and is closely related to the map cognitive process. Eye-tracking data contains a wealth of visual information that can be used to identify cognitive behavior during map reading. Nevert...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,830 Views
21 Pages

1 April 2025

This study focuses on the visual attention of residents and tourists to elements of urban landscapes from above. It screens out elements that attract viewers’ attention, assesses their aesthetics, and explores how these aesthetic evaluations af...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,077 Views
16 Pages

Supervisors’ Visual Attention Allocation Modeling Using Hybrid Entropy

  • Haifeng Bao,
  • Weining Fang,
  • Beiyuan Guo and
  • Peng Wang

12 April 2019

With the improvement in automation technology, humans have now become supervisors of the complicated control systems that monitor the informative human–machine interface. Analyzing the visual attention allocation behaviors of supervisors is ess...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,376 Views
25 Pages

A second-price auction with eye movement recordings was used to investigate consumer preferences for labels disclosing the presence and absence of specific types of insecticides and to explore the relationship between visual attention and consumer pu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,349 Views
24 Pages

Entropy as a Lens: Exploring Visual Behavior Patterns in Architects

  • Renate Delucchi Danhier,
  • Barbara Mertins,
  • Holger Mertins and
  • Gerold Schneider

16 September 2025

This study examines how architectural expertise shapes visual perception, extending the “Seeing for Speaking” hypothesis into a non-linguistic domain. Specifically, it investigates whether architectural training influences unconscious visual processi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,028 Views
15 Pages

4 April 2020

Driving is a task that puts heavy demands on visual information, thereby the human visual system plays a critical role in making proper decisions for safe driving. Understanding a driver’s visual attention and relevant behavior information is a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,547 Views
11 Pages

Wider and Stronger Inhibitory Ring of the Attentional Focus in Schizophrenia

  • Luca Ronconi,
  • Vincenzo Florio,
  • Silvia Bronzoni,
  • Beatrice Salvetti,
  • Agnese Raponi,
  • Giancarlo Giupponi,
  • Andreas Conca and
  • Demis Basso

27 January 2023

Anomalies of attentional selection have been repeatedly described in individuals with schizophrenia spectrum disorders. However, a precise analysis of their ability to inhibit irrelevant visual information during attentional selection is not document...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,737 Views
13 Pages

1 March 2020

The pulvinar, also called the lateral posterior nucleus of the thalamus in rodents, is one of the higher-order thalamic relays and the main visual extrageniculate thalamic nucleus in rodents and primates. Although primate studies report the pulvinar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
9,159 Views
13 Pages

Acute Effects of a Short Bout of Physical Activity on Cognitive Function in Sport Students

  • Martin Niedermeier,
  • Elisabeth M. Weiss,
  • Lisa Steidl-Müller,
  • Martin Burtscher and
  • Martin Kopp

Physical activity is a promising intervention to restore cognitive function after prolonged sedentary periods. However, little is known about the effect of short physical activity bouts on cognition especially among individuals that are used to physi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
6,482 Views
17 Pages

The visual quality of architectural heritage is crucial to the preservation of architectural features, enhancement of the environmental quality, and conservation of the sustainable development and adaptive use of architectural heritage. Few studies h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,527 Views
11 Pages

7 August 2020

The current intelligent driving technology based on image data is being widely used. However, the analysis of traffic accidents occurred in intelligent driving vehicles shows that there is an explanatory difference between the intelligent driving sys...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
511 Views
35 Pages

A Focus on Selection for Fixation

  • John K. Tsotsos,
  • Iuliia Kotseruba and
  • Calden Wloka

A computational explanation of how visual attention, interpretation of visual stimuli, and eye movements combine to produce visual behavior, seems elusive. Here, we focus on one component: how selection is accomplished for the next fixation. The popu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,827 Views
9 Pages

Unfavorable Behaviors in Children Run in Packs! Dietary and Non-Dietary Modulators of Attentional Capacity

  • Alina Drozdowska,
  • Michael Falkenstein,
  • Thomas Lücke,
  • Mathilde Kersting,
  • Gernot Jendrusch,
  • Petra Platen and
  • Kathrin Sinningen

9 December 2022

Children’s cognitive performance can be influenced by behaviors such as eating breakfast in the morning. The aim of this analysis was to investigate the mediating effects of breakfast behavior and other lifestyle habits on eye-hand coordination...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,522 Views
20 Pages

This study investigated tourists’ visual perception, aesthetic experience, and behavioral intentions across four types of landscapes. A total of 353 questionnaires were distributed on-site, and the SOR model was used to examine the visual stimu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,627 Views
12 Pages

24 September 2024

Background/Objectives: Crowding is a common visual phenomenon that can significantly impair the recognition of objects in peripheral vision. Two recent behavioral studies have revealed that both exogenous and endogenous attention can alleviate crowdi...

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