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      In the Eyes of Young Children: A Study on Focused Attention to Digital Educational Games

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      Proceedings of the 32nd International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI)
      Human Computer Interaction Conference
      4 - 6 July 2018
      Digital Educational Games, Early Childhood Learning, Eye-tracking, Numeracy
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            Numerous research studies on digital educational games (DEGs) focused on whether they help improve children’s learning performance. Nonetheless, only a few studies sought to address how children learn through DEGs. We were motivated to bridge this gap through an empirical study with the eye-tracking methodology. A total of 94 five-year-olds were involved in the study. They were asked to play with a DEG or cardboard game on numeracy. We analysed how fixation duration (a proxy for attention) was related to learning strategies based on the children’s achievement level. The main findings include: the DEG did not yield any significant learning effect but its cardboard version did; the children’s performance for recall-based tasks were significantly worse than that for recognition-based task; the achievement level played a significant role in varying attention given to the objects of the games. Reflections on applying the eye-tracking methods to young children were also discussed.

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            July 2018
            July 2018
            : 1-13
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            [1 ] Department of Informatics

            University of Leicester

            University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
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            10.14236/ewic/HCI2018.20
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            © Nizam et al. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. Proceedings of British HCI 2018. Belfast, UK.

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            Proceedings of the 32nd International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference
            HCI
            32
            Belfast, UK
            4 - 6 July 2018
            Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)
            Human Computer Interaction Conference
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            1477-9358 BCS Learning & Development

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            Applied computer science,Computer science,Security & Cryptology,Graphics & Multimedia design,General computer science,Human-computer-interaction
            Digital Educational Games,Early Childhood Learning,Eye-tracking,Numeracy
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