Private Reader

• DOI: 10.1145/3338286.3340129
• Publication Date: 2019-10-01T14:08:52Z
• Authors: Kirill Ragozin; Yun Suen Pai; Olivier Augereau; Koichi Kise; Jochen Kerdels; Kai Kunze
• Keywords: 11. Sustainability; 05 social sciences; 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences

Reading in public spaces can often be tricky if we wish to keep the contents away from prying eye. We propose Private Reader, an eye-tracking approach towards maintaining privacy while reading by rendering only portion of text that is gazed reader. conducted a user study evaluating for both reader and observer terms privacy, comfort, speed three modes; normal, underscored, scrambled text. "Scrambled" performs best perceived effort frustration shoulder surfer. Our contribution threefold; developed system preserve at gaze-point reader, evaluate preferences subjective task load, suggested several scenarios where Reader useful spaces.