Investigating Student Engagement through a Virtual Reality Classroom that Utilizes Eye Tracking and Portable Electroencephalography Technology

• In Event: D&D- Digital Games-based Learning and Design Frameworks (h)

Short Description

Student engagement is often considered the gateway between instruction and learning, yet reliably measuring engagement remains a major challenge. To overcome this challenge, we have developed an innovative, immersive virtual reality (VR) environment, which mimics a real classroom to investigate student engagement while maintaining full experimental control. In this session, we present preliminary findings from a pilot study on this VR classroom that triangulates traditional self-reported metrics with eye-gaze, user data, and brain activity measures.

Authors

• Presenter: Noah Glaser, Old Dominion University

• Contributor: Ido Davidesco, University of Connecticut

• Contributor: Elana Zion Golumbic, Bar Ilan University

• Contributor: Kenneth Thompson, University of Connecticut