Measuring the Engagement of the Learner in a Controlled Environment using Three Different Biosensors

Khaled El-Abbasy, Anastassia Angelopoulou, Tony Towell

2018

Abstract

Irrespective of the educational model, the major challenge is how to achieve maximum efficiency of the education process and keep learners engaged during learning. This paper investigates the relationship between emotions and engagement in the E-learning environment, and how recognizing the learners emotions and changing the content delivery accordingly can affect the efficiency of the E-learning process. The proposed experiment aims to identify ways to increase the engagement of the learners, hence, enhance the efficiency of the learning process and the quality of learning. A controlled experiment was conducted to investigate participants emotions using bio sensors such as eye tracker, EEG, and camera to capture facial images in different emotional states. One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) test and t-Test was carried out to compare the performance of the three groups and show if there was an effect of using the affective E-learning system to improve the learners performance. Our findings support the conclusion that using bio sensors as a quantitative research tool to investigate human behaviours and measure emotions in real time can significantly enhance the efficiency of E-learning.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

El-Abbasy K., Angelopoulou A. and Towell T. (2018). Measuring the Engagement of the Learner in a Controlled Environment using Three Different Biosensors.In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-758-291-2, pages 278-284. DOI: 10.5220/0006788202780284

in Bibtex Style

@conference{csedu18,
author={Khaled El-Abbasy and Anastassia Angelopoulou and Tony Towell},
title={Measuring the Engagement of the Learner in a Controlled Environment using Three Different Biosensors},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU,},
year={2018},
pages={278-284},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006788202780284},
isbn={978-989-758-291-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU,
TI - Measuring the Engagement of the Learner in a Controlled Environment using Three Different Biosensors
SN - 978-989-758-291-2
AU - El-Abbasy K.
AU - Angelopoulou A.
AU - Towell T.
PY - 2018
SP - 278
EP - 284
DO - 10.5220/0006788202780284