The subject matter disclosed herein provides methods for detecting a user's loss of focus while reading content from an electronic device, paper, or other medium and prompting the user to refocus his/her concentration. This method can maintain a user profile that includes alert parameters. The alert parameters can include a prompt timer period and a type of prompt to be generated. The prompt timer period can specify a maximum allowable gaze time before one or more prompts are generated. The method can determine whether data received from a device tracking a movement by one or both eyes of a user is representative of active reading of content viewed by the user. One or more prompts can be generated based on the determining. Related apparatus, systems, techniques, and articles are also described.
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