A Psychophysiological Approach to the Usability Evaluation of a Multi-view Video Browsing Tool

The aim of this study is to investigate the usability of a video browsing tool. The tool aims at facilitating content navigation and selection in media post-production, supporting also multi-view content. Psychophysiological measures such as skin conductance level are used to measure cognitive effort. Objective measures based on content retrieval tasks as well as self-report measures of usability are also reported. Results indicate the differential effect of introducing specific support for multi-view content in the browsing tool, and encourage further research on the use of psychophysiological techniques in usability evaluations.