Towards Modeling the Psychophysiology of Learning Interactions: The Effect of Agency on Arousal in Dyads Learning Physics with a Serious Computer Game

Autor: Julien Mercier, Kathleen Whissell-Turner, Ivan Luciano Avaca, Ariane Paradis
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Communications in Computer and Information Science ISBN: 9783030739874
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-73988-1_34
Popis: It is generally assumed that making the learner active leads to better learning although this improvement has not be firmly quantified experimentally. The goal of this paper is to test the effect of agency in cooperative learning and to explore methodological strategies as well as theoretical and applied implications of agency in the study of cooperative learning, in this case with data on arousal. Results from 27 dyads (1 player and 1 watcher) who played a serious game for learning physics for 120 min show that agency has no effect on the overall quantity of arousal, but that the arousal of a watcher and player is synchronized. A watcher’s arousal may precede or be delayed from the player’s. The results point to refinements for the use of multimodal data in process-oriented studies of cooperative learning.
Databáze: OpenAIRE