SmartRSVP
Wei Guo, Jingtao Wang · 2017
Smart watches can enrich everyday interactions by providing both glanceable information and instant access to frequent tasks. However, reading text messages on a 1.5-inch screen is inherently challenging, especially when a user's attention is divided. We present SmartRSVP, an attentive speed-reading system to facilitate text reading on small screen wearable devices. SmartRSVP leverages camera-based visual attention tracking as a play/pause control channel, and uses implicit physiological signal sensing to adjust speed in real-time to make text reading via Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP) more enjoyable and practical on smart watches. Through two pilot studies, we received positive feedback on the visual attention controlling feature and confirmed the feasibility of the speed adjusting feature of SmartRSVP. This paper reports the preliminary results of the studies.