Student Attentive State Data Accumulation for Attention Tracker Development
Chi-Jen Lin · International Journal of Learning Teaching and Educational Research · 2016
Attention is vital to learning, and attention trackers are potentially powerful tools for education practitioners. Herein, the promising technologies and relevant studies on attention are reviewed. In order to realize the goals of attention trackers, this study aimed to accumulate initial attentive state data, and to explore potential problems in the use of the accumulated data. It was found that the gaze location was a good estimator of the student’s attentive state. It was also discovered that real-time applications of attention trackers may find that previously obtained student attentive states must be altered at a later time. More studies are required for the development of attention trackers with desired characteristics. However, published results are promising.