GUIDÆTA - A Versatile Interactions Dataset with extensive Context Information and Metadata
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2025
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The Eurographics Association
Abstract
Interaction data is widely used in multiple domains such as cognitive science, visualization, human computer interaction, and cybersecurity, among others. Applications range from cognitive analyses over user/behavior modeling, adaptation, recommendations, to (user/bot) identification/verification. That is, research on these applications - in particular those relying on learned models - require copious amounts of structured data for both training and evaluation. Different application domains thereby impose different requirements. I.e., for some purposes it is vital that the data is based on a guided interaction process, meaning that monitored subjects pursued a given task, while other purposes require additional context information, such as widget interactions or metadata. Unfortunately, the amount of publicly available datasets is small and their respective applicability for specific purposes limited. We present GUIDEd Interaction DATA (GUIDÆTA) - a new dataset, collected from a large-scale guided user study with more than 250 users, each working on three pre-defined information retrieval tasks using a custom-built consumer information system. Besides being larger than most comparable datasets - with 716 completed tasks, 2.39 million mouse and keyboard events (2.35 million and 40 thousand, respectively) and a total observation period of almost 50 hours - its interactions exhibit encompassing context information in the form of widget information, triggered (system) events and associated displayed content. Combined with extensive metadata such as sociodemographic user data and answers to explicit feedback questionnaires (regarding perceived usability, experienced cognitive load, pre-knowledge on the information system's topic), GUIDÆTA constitutes a versatile dataset, applicable for various research domains and purposes. Alongside the data itself, we publish the software tools we use for handling and analyzing the dataset.
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CCS Concepts: Human-centered computing->Interactive systems and tools; Applied computing->Health care information systems
@inproceedings{10.2312:stag.20251335,
booktitle = {Smart Tools and Applications in Graphics - Eurographics Italian Chapter Conference},
editor = {Comino Trinidad, Marc and Mancinelli, Claudio and Maggioli, Filippo and Romanengo, Chiara and Cabiddu, Daniela and Giorgi, Daniela},
title = {{GUIDÆTA - A Versatile Interactions Dataset with extensive Context Information and Metadata}},
author = {Lengauer, Stefan and Götz, Sarah Annabelle von and Hoesch, Marie-Therese and Steinwidder, Florian and Tytarenko, Mariia and Bedek, Michael A. and Schreck, Tobias},
year = {2025},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association},
ISSN = {2617-4855},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-296-7},
DOI = {10.2312/stag.20251335}
}