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Record W4410075904 · doi:10.1080/07370024.2025.2497236

The effects of dynamic dwell time systems on the usability of eye-tracking technology: a systematic review and meta-analyses

2025· review· en· W4410075904 on OpenAlex

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
fundA Canadian funder is recorded on the work.

Bibliographic record

VenueHuman-Computer Interaction · 2025
Typereview
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicGaze Tracking and Assistive Technology
Canadian institutionsQueen's University
FundersSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of CanadaNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsUsabilityDwell timeEye trackingComputer scienceTracking (education)Meta-analysisHuman–computer interactionPsychologyArtificial intelligenceMedicineInternal medicine

Abstract

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Eye-tracking can be used by individuals with severe motor impairments as a hands-free access method to computer systems. The traditional eye-tracking selection method employs static dwell times that are held constant throughout a task. The value of this parameter has an inherent speed-accuracy trade-off, with long dwell times being accurate but slow, and short dwell times being efficient but error-prone. To address this usability flaw, emerging research has introduced dynamic dwell time systems that employ either the user or a computer algorithm to vary the dwell time parameter throughout the task. A systematic review was undertaken to determine the modes and mechanisms of dwell time manipulation employed by these dynamic systems and the computer-based tasks they support. From six academic databases, 2765 relevant studies were identified. After removal of duplicates, title and abstract screening, and full text screening, four journal articles and eight conference proceedings evaluated dynamic dwell time systems. A series of fixed elements meta-analyses showed that the dynamic dwell time systems were significantly more usable than their static dwell time comparators. Dynamic systems may mitigate the speed-accuracy trade-offs associated with static dwell times. Future research required to further increase the usability of these systems is discussed.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Systematic review · Consensus signal: Systematic review
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.085
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0040.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0020.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.065
GPT teacher head0.404
Teacher spread0.339 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it