Mnemonic Tracing: Using Eye Gaze to Search for Visual Memories
Wazeer Zulfikar, Yasith Samaradivakara, Paul Pu Liang, Pattie Maes · 2026 · Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’26)
Mnemonic Tracing is a non-verbal image-retrieval interaction in which a user, wearing eye-tracking glasses, deliberately retraces the contents of a remembered image with their gaze on a blank surface. The paper builds on gaze-reinstatement research, which shows that when people…
eye tracking · gaze interaction · gaze reinstatement · episodic memory · image retrieval