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What I noticed was that most of the attention was between the left side and center of the page. The only attention point on the right side was the scroll bar. Made me think of the NEXTSTEP window manager where the scroll bars were on the left. The explanation at the time for this apparent deviation from the "standard" was that it kept the scroll bar closer to the user's primary attention areas on the page.

In Mac OS X i guess Apple caved to popular convention and moved the scroll bars to the right.




I wonder why only a particular part of the scroll bar appears to have attracted long gaze patterns? In my own case, I'm typically looking at the slider as a metric of page length, not a particular spot on the bar itself.


I noticed that as well; I assume people basically all tended to check page length at the same point through the page--presumably at some boundary between content sections.




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