Seizing Attention: Devices and Desires

Stafford, Barbara Maria

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“…Visual design elements, however subtle they may be, vie for our “undivided attention” ( Stafford, 2016 ). However, it is not in the scope of this article to elaborate on various possible moderating factors that can be linked to specific, and often subtle, design elements.…”

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How gaze time on screen impacts the efficacy of visual instructions

Eriksson

Swenberg

Zhao

et al. 2018

Heliyon

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This article explores whether GTS (gaze time on screen) can be useful as an engagement measure in the screen mediated learning context. Research that exemplifies ways of measuring engagement in the on-line education context usually does not address engagement metrics and engagement evaluation methods that are unique to the diverse contemporary instructional media landscape. Nevertheless, unambiguous construct definitions of engagement and standardized engagement evaluation methods are needed to leverage instructional media's efficacy. By analyzing the results from a mixed methods eye-tracking study of fifty-seven participants evaluating their visual and assembly performance levels in relation to three visual, procedural instructions that are versions of the same procedural instruction, we found that the mean GTS-values in each group were rather similar. However, the original GTS-values outputted from the ET-computer were not entirely correct and needed to be manually checked and cross validated. Thus, GTS appears not to be a reliable, universally applicable automatic engagement measure in screen-based instructional efforts. Still, we could establish that the overall performance of learners was somewhat negatively impacted by lower than mean GTS-scores, when checking the performance levels of the entire group (N = 57). When checking the stimuli groups individually (N = 17, 20, 20), the structural diagram group's assembly time durations were positively influenced by higher than mean GTS-scores.

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How gaze time on screen impacts the efficacy of visual instructions

Eriksson

Swenberg

Zhao

et al. 2018

Heliyon

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“…Today, with image devices shrinking in scale, quickening in speed and bypassing the body almost completely, Ghost and Hollow Lens endeavour to activate a more embodied cognitive awareness in the viewer, as my interaction with various 19th-century moving image devices had facilitated for me. Stafford (2016: 423), in her essay ‘Seizing Attention: Devices and Desires’, addresses the current trend in technologies to make use of our involuntary response mechanisms, causing a decline in conscious attention and awareness. In response to this scarcity of critical attention, Stafford emphasizes the importance of valuing technologies that make us consciously aware that we are attending (p. 425).…”

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“…In this article, a variety of theoretical standpoints are interwoven to develop an argument for an expanded context of device, image and viewer, and the importance of revealing the device's mechanism. These include Wolfgang Ernst's (2016) discussion of the micro-temporalities of technological devices, Zielinski's (2013) discourse on optics and Barbara Stafford's (2016) call for a more conscious attending when engaging with media devices. Exploring differences between mechanism and device, media archaeology and optical time, the article brings together theses from a range of disciplines such as Paul Virilio and Ernst's discussions on technological speed and human perception, and 19th-century physiologist Étienne-Jules Marey's endeavour to chrono-photographically capture lost time.…”

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Achronologies, Materiality and Mechanics of Time in Optical Moving Image Systems

Feeney

2023

Animation

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Within the fields of animation, media archaeology and film, much attention is placed on the image and the viewer. This article will broaden this focus to explore the moving image as a form of time in an expanded context of animation which triangulates the device with the image and viewer. The devices discussed form part of optical image system artworks that the author has researched and developed. These devices project moving images of light and have diverse historical and opto-mechanical underpinnings. The systems present their own form of optically generated time, not of minutes and hours, but of movement and light, which the author terms time-light. The article explores how revealing the mechanism generating the moving image can establish a new ontology for the device by critically engaging the viewer in how time is constructed, mediated and experienced. Being both ‘object’ and a ‘subjective experience’, time is deeply connected to our human and post-human relationship with technology. The subjective experience of the moving image in conjunction with its decloaked device can therefore make explicit our techno–human relationship with time.

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From Communicable Matter to Incommunicable “Stuff”: Extreme Combinatorics and the Return of Ineffability

Stafford

2017

Ineffability: An Exercise in Comparative Philosophy of Religion

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Seizing Attention: Devices and Desires

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How gaze time on screen impacts the efficacy of visual instructions

How gaze time on screen impacts the efficacy of visual instructions

Achronologies, Materiality and Mechanics of Time in Optical Moving Image Systems

From Communicable Matter to Incommunicable “Stuff”: Extreme Combinatorics and the Return of Ineffability

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