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S&M2133 Research Paper of Special Issue https://doi.org/10.18494/SAM.2020.2621 Published: February 20, 2020 Investigation of Relationship Between Eye Gaze and Brain Waves towards Smart Sensing for E-learning [PDF] Koichi Shimoda, Shun Tanabe, and Yoshito Tobe (Received September 17, 2019; Accepted January 22, 2020) Keywords: electroencephalography, e-learning, eye gaze
In recent years, we have witnessed a new trend of learning called e-learning where learners
can take courses using electronic devices with Internet connection. Although e-learning is
convenient because it removes temporal and spatial limitations, it is difficult to know whether
the learner is really paying attention to the learning materials. To address this problem, we tried
to use electroencephalography (EEG) to investigate a learner’s concentration in our previous
study. However, our previous study relied on subjective evaluation, and there was no objective
observation to relate the EEG signals to the learner’s concentration. Given this background,
we compared eye gaze and EEG results to find the appropriate position and frequency band of
EEG in e-learning in this study. We compared the EEG result obtained during a period when
the subjects were watching a video lecture and that obtained during a period when the subjects
were not watching, and determined that the viewing state could be predicted from EEG logistic
regression and a support vector machine (SVM). The results suggested that measuring beta and
gamma waves and examining the parietal and occipital regions are both effective.
Corresponding author: Yoshito TobeThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Cite this article Koichi Shimoda, Shun Tanabe, and Yoshito Tobe, Investigation of Relationship Between Eye Gaze and Brain Waves towards Smart Sensing for E-learning, Sens. Mater., Vol. 32, No. 2, 2020, p. 735-743. |