Tracking Mouse Movements On Websites
from the they-know-what-you're-thinking... dept
Some researchers are working on ways to track your mouse movements when you visit a webpage. They think this will give useful info about links that you "almost" clicked on, or thought about clicking on, and which areas of a website are more interesting to readers. It's might be interesting, or it might be useless. I recently noticed that when I'm reading a webpage, I tend to randomly move the mouse around and occasionally highlight words, sentences, paragraphs or entire articles for no clear reason. Hopefully I'm screwing up some tracking software somewhere.
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Talk about a hare brained idea
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Probably useless, but...
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Re: Probably useless, but...
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tracking the wrong bodypart...
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