Internet advertising is important revenue for online news. Internet advertising is important revenue for online news. Layout of the advertisements has enormous impact on the effect of the advertisements. Due to the reasons mentioned, this research attempts to investigate, by using eye tracker as measuring equipment, how different layouts of the advertisements can influence visual point and eye movements when users are browsing through online news websites. This research adopted EYELINK II to track and record subject ’s eye movement pattern. 36 undergraduate students from the Chinese Culture University are recruited to watch random appeared different online news websites and online advertisements on a 21" monitor. And their attention distribution were analyzed. The results are: 1. When the subjects were browsing through online news websites, the first visual point was on the pictures and the center of eye movement was on the articles. 2. Different locations of the banner ads don ’t have any influences on the subjects ’ visual points, whereas different locations of the button ads can influence the subjects ’ visual points. 3. Overall, this research concludes that, while browsing through the online news websites, the subjects ’ eye movement go clockwise, starting from pictures on top-left of the website, then, headlines, articles, all news links, other news, information, button ads, banner ads, toolbar and finally logos. 4. The findings also show that the different Sequences of Fixation Points are due to the subjects ’ degrees of interest in the online news websites. However, it can not be concluded that whether differentSequences of Fixation Points are affected by the locations of the advertisements or not. 5. While browsing through online news websites, the subjects ’ attention distribution is indeed affected by different locations of the advertisements.
中文關鍵詞
網路廣告,版面配置,視覺焦點,閱\讀動線,眼動追蹤,新聞網頁
英文關鍵詞
internet advertising, layout, visual point, eye movement, eye tracking, online news