Cognitive Styles and Students’ Interaction with an Instructional Web-site: Tracing Users through Eye-gaze

摘要

Users’ psychological and physiological differences have been sought by researchers. Cognitive style -one of these differences- is related to a person’s approach of getting, organizing, and processing information. It is indicated in the literature that cognitive style has the potential to affect the users’ interaction patterns in computer-based interfaces. This study was conducted to reveal the interaction patterns of users with different cognitive styles by using eye-tracking method. Results indicated that users’ fixation durations and places might vary among different cognitive style groups, but no statistically significant difference was found.