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

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IDC '13: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children

Pages 435 - 438

https://doi.org/10.1145/2485760.2485820

Published: 24 June 2013 Publication History

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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.

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IDC '13: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children

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DOI:10.1145/2485760

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Stefanidi ESchöning JFeger SMarshall PRogers YNiess J(2022)Designing for Care Ecosystems: a Literature Review of Technologies for Children with ADHDProceedings of the 21st Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference10.1145/3501712.3529746(13-25)Online publication date: 27-Jun-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3501712.3529746
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