CodeGazer: Making Code Navigation Easy and Natural with Gaze Input

Asma Shakil; Christof Lutteroth; Gerald Weber

doi:10.1145/3290605.3300306

CodeGazer: Making Code Navigation Easy and Natural with Gaze Input

Asma Shakil, Christof Lutteroth, Gerald Weber

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Abstract

Navigating source code, an activity common in software development,is time consuming and in need of improvement. We present CodeGazer, a prototype for source code navigation using eye gaze for common navigation functions. These functions include actions such as “Go to Definition” and “Find All Usages” of an identifier, navigate to files and methods, move back and forth between visited points in code and scrolling. We present user study results showing that many users liked and even preferred the gaze-based navigation, in particular the “Go to Definition” function. Gaze-based navigation is also holding up well in completion time when compared to traditional methods. We discuss how eye gaze can be integrated into traditional mouse & keyboard applications in order to make “look up” tasks more natural.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	1-12
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450359702
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300306
Publication status	Published - 9 May 2019
Event	CHI 2019: Weaving the threads of CHI: CHI 2019 - Glasgow, UK United Kingdom Duration: 4 May 2019 → 9 May 2019 https://chi2019.acm.org/

Publication series

Name	CHI : Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems
Publisher	ACM Press
ISSN (Electronic)	1062-9432

Conference

Conference	CHI 2019: Weaving the threads of CHI
Abbreviated title	CHI 2019
Country/Territory	UK United Kingdom
City	Glasgow
Period	4/05/19 → 9/05/19
Internet address	https://chi2019.acm.org/

Keywords

Actigaze
Eye gaze tracking
Integrated development environment (IDE)
Source code navigation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
Software

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CodeGazer: Making Code Navigation Easy and Natural with Gaze Input. / Shakil, Asma; Lutteroth, Christof; Weber, Gerald.

CHI 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, 2019. p. 1-12 (CHI : Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems).

Research output: Chapter or section in a book/report/conference proceeding › Chapter in a published conference proceeding

Shakil, A, Lutteroth, C & Weber, G 2019, CodeGazer: Making Code Navigation Easy and Natural with Gaze Input. in CHI 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. CHI : Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 1-12, CHI 2019: Weaving the threads of CHI, Glasgow, UK United Kingdom, 4/05/19. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300306

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CodeGazer: Making Code Navigation Easy and Natural with Gaze Input

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