A study on exploration of relationships between behaviors and mental states of learners for value co-creative education and learning environment

Abstract

From the view point of value co-creation in education and learning environment, it is important to cultivate competency and literacy for learning for both learners and teachers. For realizing value co-creative education and learning environment, detection of learners' mental states during their learning activities plays very important role at this environment. In this context, it is an important task to implement an e-learning system that can automatically detect changes of learners' mental states by observing their behaviors in learning activities. In this study, we conducted an experiment to explore relationships between mental states and behaviors of a learner on our experimental tools designed along with an assumption of a learning environment with an e-learning system. We focused on mouse and face movement as the behaviors. The results of the experiment revealed some features about the behaviors and the mental states. © 2014 Springer International Publishing.