{"pk":29694,"title":"Staying and Returning Dynamics of Sustained Attention in Young Children","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Sustained attention is a dynamic process with rich temporalstructure. Eye-tracking provides a tool for capturing rich tem-poral data relevant to sustained attention, but extracting rele-vant insights from this rich data is nontrivial. This paper stud-ies eye-tracking data collected from children, aged 3-5, per-forming the TrackIt task, a visual object tracking paradigm de-signed for studying sustained attention development in youngchildren. Building on a hidden Markov model paradigm re-cently proposed for analyzing eye-tracking data with TrackIt,we explore characterizations of participant behavior, such ascontinuously maintaining attention on an object and transition-ing attention between objects, that provide richer insights thantask performance alone. In particular, our results suggest thatimprovement in TrackIt performance that accompanies devel-opment in this age range may stem more from improved abilityto return to task after distractions, rather than from improve-ments in ability to continuously maintain attention on the task.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Sustained attention; eye-tracking; TrackIt"}],"section":"Poster Session 1","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/02x136st","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Jaeah","middle_name":"","last_name":"Kim","name_suffix":"","institution":"Carnegie Mellon University","department":""},{"first_name":"Shashank","middle_name":"","last_name":"Singh","name_suffix":"","institution":"Google","department":""},{"first_name":"Erik","middle_name":"D.","last_name":"Thiessen","name_suffix":"","institution":"Carnegie Mellon University","department":""},{"first_name":"Anna","middle_name":"V.","last_name":"Fisher","name_suffix":"","institution":"Carnegie Mellon University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2020-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/29694/galley/19551/download/"}]}