Eye-tracked Evaluation of Subtitles in Immersive VR 360° Video

Brescia-Zapata, Marta; Krejtz, Krzysztof; Duchowski, Andrew T.; Hughes, Christopher J.; Orero, Pilar

Abstract

The paper presents an analysis of visual attention to subtitles within immersive media. We implement a 360∘ video rendering with eye movements recorded in Virtual Reality. Position and color of im-mersive subtitles are compared in terms of perceived task load and cognitive processing of the content. Results show that head-locked subtitles afford more focal visual inspection of the scene and pre-sumably better comprehension. This type of in-depth analysis would not be possible without the eye movement analyses.

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: 2023 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW)
• Start Date: Mar 25, 2023
• End Date: Mar 29, 2023
• Acceptance Date: Jan 6, 2023
• Publication Date: May 1, 2023
• Deposit Date: Oct 26, 2023
• Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/VRW58643.2023.00227