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Blinking is essential in maintaining eye health. The lack of blinking may lead to dry eyes, which usually happens when reading paper books. The previous blink acceleration system prompted users to blink effectively, but mandatory blinking made users uncomfortable. If users stop using the blink acceleration system, the number of blinks will reduce. Therefore, we proposed a new blink acceleration system using classical conditioning to prompt to blink when reading paper books unconsciously. Specifically, the number of blinks would increase while reading paper books because of the association between page-turning action and blinking by using the system that assigns blinking to the page-turning action when reading e-books. As a result of our evaluation experiment, the number of blinks increased for some participants with our system. There is a possibility of increasing the number of blinks while reading paper books by periodically using the proposed blink acceleration system.
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Uchida, J., Terada, T., Tsukamoto, M. (2023). Does Use of Blink Interface Affect Number of Blinks When Reading Paper Books?. In: Delir Haghighi, P., Khalil, I., Kotsis, G., ER, N.A.S. (eds) Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia Intelligence. MoMM 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14417. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48348-6_6
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