Non-disturbing engagement monitoring via game-play interaction logging and physiological sensing

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Description

The article distinguishes disturbing methods (questionnaires interrupting game-play) from non-disturbing methods that monitor engagement "without interrupting the game-play and game flow". Non-disturbing methods log player behaviour automatically and may add physiological equipment such as EEG or eye-tracking. ToTCompute exemplifies this pattern by combining game-playing event logs (task start/stop timestamps) with continuous EEG-based engagement recording during game-play.

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• Non-disturbing engagement monitoring via game-play interaction logging and physiological sensing: The article distinguishes disturbing methods (questionnaires interrupting game-play) from non-disturbing methods that monitor engagement "without interrupting the game-play and game flow". Non-disturbing methods log player behaviour automatically and may add physiological equipment such as EEG or eye-tracking. ToTCompute exemplifies this pattern by combining game-playing event logs (task start/stop timestamps) with continuous EEG-based engagement recording during game-play. (Ghergulescu et al. (2016))

Claims

• TimeOnTask threshold values computed by ToTCompute explain up to 76.2% of the variance in engagement change [+M]

Related Research Methods

• ToTCompute mechanism for automatic computation of task-dependent TimeOnTask engagement thresholds

Key Sources

• Ghergulescu, I. & Muntean, C. H. (2016). ToTCompute: A Novel EEG-Based TimeOnTask Threshold Computation Mechanism for Engagement Modelling and Monitoring. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40593-016-0111-2

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title	Non-disturbing engagement monitoring via game-play interaction logging and physiological sensing
description	The article distinguishes disturbing methods (questionnaires interrupting game-play) from non-disturbing methods that monitor engagement "without interrupting the game-play and game flow".
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