Intelligent approach to reduce overstimulation for multi-screen computing systems

Abstract

The use of computing systems is expected to significantly increase with the rapid proliferation of high-speed computing networks, and their use in modern internet integrated power systems. The increased adoption of computing entities and systems is accompanied with associated usage-related cognitive concerns. An important concern in this regard is that of cognitive overstimulation. Cognitive overstimulation arises in this case when the eyes execute roaming thereby accessing content from multiple web pages. The execution of eye roaming in this manner results in a visual sensory load. The concerned visual sensory load becomes significant when the concerned user utilizes a multi-screen computing system for enhancing individual productivity. The presented research proposes an intelligent mechanism to enable selective web page minimization, maximization, and migration between screens to reduce the visual sensory load. In addition, the proposed intelligent mechanism executes selective activation and deactivation based on the number of mouse click related activities. Performance evaluation shows that the proposed mechanism reduces the visual sensory load by (44 - 70)% on average.