Authors:
Khaled El-Abbasy
;
Anastassia Angelopoulou
and
Tony Towell
Affiliation:
University of Westminster, United Kingdom
Keyword(s):
Computer Applications, Education, Elearning, Affective Computing.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Blended Learning
;
Computer-Supported Education
;
e-Learning
;
e-Learning Hardware and Software
;
Learning/Teaching Methodologies and Assessment
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.
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