Towards the design of technology for measuring and capturing children's attention on e-learning tasks

Authors:
Nadia Mana;Ornella Mich
Affiliations:
Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy;Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy
Venue:
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children
Year:
2013

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Abstract

Being able to be attentive as necessary on an e-learning task is not always easy for a young student, especially for children affected by Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. To support this category of students, we aim to design a software module able to: (a) automatically detect their level of attention when working on a learning task and, (b) propose suitable stimuli to re-capture their attention on it. This paper describes the first two steps towards this application: (1) the building of an attention model, meant as the base of the software module for automatically measuring the attention level, and (2) the study of a face tracker to measure the attention level in real time. Finally, it proposes some possible stimuli which can be used to re-capture the lost attention.