Gaze tutor: A gaze-reactive intelligent tutoring system

S D'Mello, A Olney, C Williams, P Hays - International Journal of human …, 2012 - Elsevier
We developed an intelligent tutoring system (ITS) that aims to promote engagement and
learning by dynamically detecting and responding to students' boredom and …

A survey of biometric and machine learning methods for tracking students' attention and engagement

M Villa, M Gofman, S Mitra, A Almadan… - 2020 19th IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The skills of focusing and paying attention are critical to student learning. According to
Piontkowski et al.[40]," Educators often talk about attention as a general mental state in …

In the zone: Towards detecting student zoning out using supervised machine learning

J Drummond, D Litman - … Systems: 10th International Conference, ITS 2010 …, 2010 - Springer
This paper explores automatically detecting student zoning out while performing a spoken
learning task. Standard supervised machine learning techniques were used to create …

Gaze-based attention-aware cyberlearning technologies

SK D'Mello - Mind, Brain and Technology: Learning in the Age of …, 2019 - Springer
Over a century of cognitive psychology has taught us that attention plays a central role in
cognition, especially in learning. Accordingly, the central thesis of this chapter is that next …

[PDF][PDF] An fMRI study of zoning out during strategic reading comprehension

J Moss, C Schunn, W Schneider… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - escholarship.org
Prior neuroimaging studies of discourse comprehension and strategic reading
comprehension have shown that there are at least two networks of brain regions that support …