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RecGaze: The First Eye Tracking and User Interaction Dataset for Carousel Interfaces

DE LEON MARTINEZ, S.; KANG, J.; MORO, R.; DE RIJKE, M.; KVETON, B.; OOSTERHUIS, H.; BIELIKOVÁ, M. RecGaze: The First Eye Tracking and User Interaction Dataset for Carousel Interfaces. In SIGIR '25: Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, 2025. p. 3702-3711. ISBN: 979-8-4007-1592-1.
Type
conference paper
Language
English
Authors
de Leon Martinez Santiago Jose, DCGM (FIT)
Kang Jingwei
Moro Robert
de Rijke Maarten
Kveton Branislav
Oosterhuis Harrie
Bieliková Mária, prof. Ing., Ph.D., DCGM (FIT)
Abstract

Carousel interfaces are widely used in e-commerce and streaming services, but little research has been devoted to them. Previous studies of interfaces for presenting search and recommendation results have focused on single ranked lists, but it appears their results cannot be extrapolated to carousels due to the added complexity. Eye tracking is a highly informative approach to understanding how users click, yet there are no eye tracking studies concerning carousels. There are very few interaction datasets on recommenders with carousel interfaces and none that contain gaze data. We introduce the RecGaze dataset: the first comprehensive feedback dataset on carousels that includes eye tracking results, clicks, cursor movements, and selection explanations. The dataset comprises of interactions from 3 movie selection tasks with 40 different carousel interfaces per user. In total, 87 users and 3,477 interactions are logged. In addition to the dataset, its description and possible use cases, we provide results of a survey on carousel design and the first analysis of gaze data on carousels, which reveals a golden triangle or F-pattern browsing behavior. Our work seeks to advance the field of carousel interfaces by providing the first dataset with eye tracking results on carousels. In this manner, we provide and encourage an empirical understanding of interactions with carousel interfaces, for building better recommender systems through gaze information, and also encourage the development of gaze-based recommenders.

Keywords

Carousel interfaces, Browsing behavior, Eye tracking

URL
Published
2025
Pages
3702–3711
Proceedings
SIGIR '25: Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
Conference
The 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
ISBN
979-8-4007-1592-1
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery
Place
New York
DOI
10.1145/3726302.3730301
UT WoS
001587983900415
BibTeX 
@inproceedings{BUT197028,
  author="Santiago Jose {de Leon Martinez} and  {} and  {} and  {} and  {} and  {} and  {} and Mária {Bieliková}",
  title="RecGaze: The First Eye Tracking and User Interaction Dataset for Carousel Interfaces",
  booktitle="SIGIR '25: Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval",
  year="2025",
  pages="3702--3711",
  publisher="Association for Computing Machinery",
  address="New York",
  doi="10.1145/3726302.3730301",
  isbn="979-8-4007-1592-1",
  url="https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3726302.3730301"
}
Departments
Department of Computer Graphics and Multimedia (DCGM)
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