Emulation of the Human Visual Search

摘要

The research is motivated by a long felt need for a device which from a human-factors point of view could produce sensible predictions, or even reliable estimates, of human search performance for given stimulus displays, thereby taking account of the many aspects of human visual search. For a human-factors evaluation of a display structure, the fragments of knowledge do not offer much help in composing an overall prediction of the related visual search performance. An emulator of visual search performance which properly integrates the fragments into a coherent framework, might save time and effort. A number of exploratory experiments was conducted. The design of the emulator is elaborated. Emulator testing and evaluation is discussed. It is concluded that the emulator implementation is simplistic to the extent that it proves feasibility of the approach to emulation of search up to the first eye movement.