Can relaxation exercises improve learning?

Authors:
Mohd Zaliman Yusoff;Benedict Du Boulay
Affiliations:
College of Information Technology, Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Malaysia;IDEAS LAB, University of Sussex, UK
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2009 conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education: Building Learning Systems that Care: From Knowledge Representation to Affective Modelling
Year:
2009

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Abstract

Students use both domain-dependent strategies (such as seeking specific domain help) and domain-independent strategies (such as relaxation exercises) to help regulate their affective states when learning. This paper reports a study that compared students' performance in learning data-structures across two systems. While both systems supported domain-dependent strategies, one additionally supported domain-independent strategies (relaxation exercises). The results provide some evidence that students working with both domain-dependent and domain-independent strategies performed better than those working with domain-dependent strategies only.