Masters Thesis - Issues of Saliency and Recognition in the Search for Web Page Bookmarks

Acknowledgements

Thanks are due to the following people:

Linden - for absolutely everything, including his lucid thinking, his great quotes, and especially for enduring so many meetings with me!

Peter - for making all this possible with his data crunching machines and technical expertise, not to mention for being so generous with his time.

Minnie, Kate, James, Sean and Ian - for essential support when times were tough (thanks guys!).

Karine - for acting as my sounding board and helping me to spark off so many brainwaves

...and of course thanks to everyone who participated in the experiment!

The dissertation in numbers

Working with eye movement data is very labour intensive - here are some stats to mull over if you are thinking of doing working with eye trackers:

40,000 data points manipulated to extremes in Excel and SPSS
1,440 eye movement errors corrected (painstakingly) by hand
360 areas of interest defined (painstakingly) by hand
144 bookmark screens captured as screenshots and processed in Photoshop
150 websites reviewed for possible inclusion in the study
30 websites processed in PhotoShop for inclusion in the study
40 participants who took part
7 pairs of eyes that could not be tracked