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Experimental Research of Educational Content Tracking by Students Group for Distance Learning

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Information and Communication Technologies in Education, Research, and Industrial Applications (ICTERI 2021)

Part of the book series: Communications in Computer and Information Science ((CCIS,volume 1698))

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The results of experimental testing of the developed software for matching the focus of the student’s gaze with the structure of the training content on a computer monitor are presented in this paper. The use of widespread equipment is assumed: a laptop with a built-in camera or one additional camera. Initial processing of the face image, selection of eye areas is carried out using the OpenCV library. An appropriate algorithm for calculating the center of the eye pupil and the point on the monitor corresponding to the current focus of the gaze has been developed. The influence of the system calibration process with different schemes of calibration point display, its delay time on the screen and location of the additional camera according to the accuracy of the calculation of the coordinates of the gaze focus is investigated. Based on the performed experiments, it was defined that the error of gaze focus recognition with using two cameras can be reduced to 4–10%. The experiment in order to improve the calibration processes and evaluate the capabilities of the developed software for use on a laptop with only one built-in camera involving a group of students was carried out. The proposed approach makes it possible for objective measurement of each student working time with one or another part of the content. The lecturer will have the opportunity to improve the content by highlighting significant parts that receive little attention and simplifying those elements that students process for an unreasonably big amount of time. It is planned to integrate the developed software into the LMS Moodle in the future.

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    Viktor Shynkarenko, Valentyn Raznosilin, Yuliia Snihur & Robert Chyhir

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  2. Techforce Infotech Pvt. Ltd., Barcelona, Spain

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  4. University of Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria

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Shynkarenko, V., Raznosilin, V., Snihur, Y., Chyhir, R. (2022). Experimental Research of Educational Content Tracking by Students Group for Distance Learning. In: Ermolayev, V., et al. Information and Communication Technologies in Education, Research, and Industrial Applications. ICTERI 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1698. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20834-8_11

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