Relationship Between Eye-Tracking Metrics and Cognitive Load in Mixed Reality

Daniel Stuhlmacher, René Kockord, Oliver Bodensiek, Oliver Bodensiek

2025

Abstract

The rapid development of mixed reality is also affecting the educational sector, offering innovative learning environments but also creating new challenges. For adaptive learning environments in mixed reality the cognitive load of the users plays an important role since it can reflect, amongst others, how to adjust level of difficulty to best support the learner. Modern mixed reality head-mounted devices often come along with integrated eyetrackers, simplifying the investigation of cognitive load by means of eye-tracking. This paper investigates the relationship between certain eye-tracking metrics and cognitive load in a mixed reality learning environment to provide a basis for more adaptive learning systems. The results show that selected eye-tracking parameters correlate significantly with different subtypes of cognitive load, the most promising of which are the fixation rate and the relative percentage of fixations. The analysis is based on data from a study that investigated the first time contact with a mixed reality head-mounted device while performing simple tasks with virtual dice. Cognitive load and its subtypes were assessed after each task using self-rating scales

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Stuhlmacher D., Kockord R. and Bodensiek O. (2025). Relationship Between Eye-Tracking Metrics and Cognitive Load in Mixed Reality. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: ERSeGEL; ISBN 978-989-758-746-7, SciTePress, pages 899-906. DOI: 10.5220/0013501400003932

in Bibtex Style

@conference{ersegel25,
author={Daniel Stuhlmacher and René Kockord and Oliver Bodensiek},
title={Relationship Between Eye-Tracking Metrics and Cognitive Load in Mixed Reality},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: ERSeGEL},
year={2025},
pages={899-906},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0013501400003932},
isbn={978-989-758-746-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: ERSeGEL
TI - Relationship Between Eye-Tracking Metrics and Cognitive Load in Mixed Reality
SN - 978-989-758-746-7
AU - Stuhlmacher D.
AU - Kockord R.
AU - Bodensiek O.
PY - 2025
SP - 899
EP - 906
DO - 10.5220/0013501400003932
PB - SciTePress