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The development of eye-tracking-based methods to describe a person’s indecisiveness is not commonly explored, even though research has shown that indecisiveness is involved in many unwanted cognitive states, such as a reduction in self-confidence during the decision-making process, doubts about past decisions, reconsidering, trepidation, distractibility, procrastination, neuroticism, and even revenge. The purpose of our work is to propose a predictive model of a subject’s degree of decisiveness, either “indecisive” or “decisive.” To reach this goal, we needed to extract descriptors that clearly distinguished both states. Using eye-tracking methodology, we then studied the reactions of different subjects in response to several types of stimuli.
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Lufimpu-Luviya, Y., Merad, D., Fertil, B., Drai-Zerbib, V., Baccino, T. (2014). Degree of Subject’s Indecisiveness Characterized by Eye Movement Patterns in Increasingly Difficult Tasks. In: Horsley, M., Eliot, M., Knight, B., Reilly, R. (eds) Current Trends in Eye Tracking Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02868-2_7
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