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The Application of Eye Tracking in Education

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Advances in Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing (IIH-MSP 2017)

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Abstract

The application of emerging information technologies to traditional teaching methods can not only enhance the value of technologies, but also improve the teaching progress and integrate different fields in education with efficiency. 3D printing, virtual reality and eye tracking technology have been found more and more applications in education recently. In this paper, through the improvement of eye tracking algorithm, we developed an education software package based on eye tracking technology. By analyzing the students’ eye movement data, teachers are able to improve the teaching quality by improving the teaching framework. Students can also focus on their own interests more to develop a reasonable learning plan. The application of eye tracking technology in the field of education has a great potential to promote the application of technology and to improve the educational standards.

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  1. School of Mathematical Sciences, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China

    Yuyang Sun & Qingzhong Li

  2. Institute of Image Processing and Pattern Recognition, North China University of Technology, Beijing, 100144, China

    Honggen Zhang & Jiancheng Zou

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  1. Fujian Provincial Key Lab of Big Data Mining and Applications, Fujian University of Technology, Fuzhou, Fujian, China

    Jeng-Shyang Pan

  2. Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia

    Pei-Wei Tsai

  3. Universiti Teknologi Petronas, Teronoh, Malaysia

    Junzo Watada

  4. University of Canberra, Bruce, Aust Capital Terr, Australia

    Lakhmi C. Jain

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Sun, Y., Li, Q., Zhang, H., Zou, J. (2018). The Application of Eye Tracking in Education. In: Pan, JS., Tsai, PW., Watada, J., Jain, L. (eds) Advances in Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing. IIH-MSP 2017. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 82. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63859-1_4

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