Predicting human performance in vertical menu selection using deep learning

Y Li, S Bengio, G Bailly - Proceedings of the 2018 CHI conference on …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Proceedings of the 2018 CHI conference on human factors in computing systems, 2018dl.acm.org
Predicting human performance in interaction tasks allows designers or developers to
understand the expected performance of a target interface without actually testing it with real
users. In this work, we present a deep neural net to model and predict human performance
in performing a sequence of UI tasks. In particular, we focus on a dominant class of tasks, ie,
target selection from a vertical list or menu. We experimented with our deep neural net using
a public dataset collected from a desktop laboratory environment and a dataset collected …
Predicting human performance in interaction tasks allows designers or developers to understand the expected performance of a target interface without actually testing it with real users. In this work, we present a deep neural net to model and predict human performance in performing a sequence of UI tasks. In particular, we focus on a dominant class of tasks, i.e., target selection from a vertical list or menu. We experimented with our deep neural net using a public dataset collected from a desktop laboratory environment and a dataset collected from hundreds of touchscreen smartphone users via crowdsourcing. Our model significantly outperformed previous methods on these datasets. Importantly, our method, as a deep model, can easily incorporate additional UI attributes such as visual appearance and content semantics without changing model architectures. By understanding about how a deep learning model learns from human behaviors, our approach can be seen as a vehicle to discover new patterns about human behaviors to advance analytical modeling.
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