Learning and Performance Increase Observed In a Distant 3D Virtual Intelligent Tutoring System When Using Efficient Subliminal Priming
Pierre Chalfoun, Claude Frasson · 2008
Abstract. In this paper we discuss the use of efficient, well thought, subliminal priming in a novel way in the context of a 3D virtual tutoring system. Subliminal priming is a technique used to pro-ject information to a learner outside of his perceptual field. Various field claimed using subliminal projections but never in the domain of 3D Intelligent Tutoring Systems. Emotion monitoring is critical in any learning context and thus we monitored the physiological reactions of the user while they learn. We will present the virtual environment and the subliminal module used. The results of this study show that learners enjoy the experience even if they hardly have any video gaming ex-perience at all. Furthermore, subliminal priming, even though not consciously perceived by a learner, seems to elicit strong positive physiological reactions as well as positively impacts per-formance and overall learning.