Title
Influence of visual cueing on students' eye movements while solving physics problems
Abstract
Overlaying visual cues on diagrams and animations can help students attend to relevant areas and facilitate problem solving. In this study we investigated the effects of visual cues on students' eye movements as they solved conceptual physics problems. Students (N=80) enrolled in an introductory physics course individually worked through four sets of problems, each containing a diagram, while their eye movements were recorded. Each diagram contained regions that were alternatively relevant to solving the problem correctly or related to common incorrect responses. Each problem set contained an initial problem, six isomorphic training problems, and a transfer problem. Those in the cued condition saw visual cues overlaid on the training problems. Students provided verbal responses. The cued group more accurately answered the (uncued) transfer problems, and their eye movements showed they more efficiently extracted the necessary information from the relevant area than the uncued group.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1145/2578153.2578181
ETRA
Keywords
Field
DocType
relevant area,initial problem,conceptual physics problem,visual cue,visual cueing,isomorphic training problem,eye movement,training problem,transfer problem,cued condition,visual cues overlaid,attention,physics,eye movements
Sensory cue,Computer vision,Simulation,Computer science,Problem set,Cued speech,Eye movement,Artificial intelligence
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Amy Rouinfar181.46
Elise Agra200.34
Jeffrey Murray300.34
Adam Larson400.68
Lester C. Loschky5628.59
N. Sanjay Rebello601.35