Title
Entropy based transition analysis of eye movement on physics representational competence.
Abstract
In this paper, we have conducted an eye tracking experiment by employing an inexpensive, lightweight, and portable eye tracker paired with a tablet. Students were instructed to solve the physics problems by presenting them three coherent representations about a phenomenon: Vectorial representations, data tables and diagrams. The effectiveness of each representation was assessed for three levels of student expertise (experts, intermediates and novices) using entropy-based transition analysis of the gaze data. The results show that students of different skill level (a) prefer different representations for problem-solving, (b) switch between representations with different frequencies, and (c) can be distinguished by the density of representation use. The obtained results confirm earlier findings of physics education research quantitatively which were initially obtained by student interviews and observational studies.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1145/2968219.2968564
UbiComp Adjunct
Keywords
Field
DocType
mobile eye tracker, physics, Representational Competence, education, entropy, transiotion
Gaze,Computer science,Physics education,Human–computer interaction,Eye movement,Eye tracking,Phenomenon
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
3
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Seyyed Saleh Mozaffari Chanijani131.83
Pascal Klein241.16
Syed Saqib Bukhari325630.73
Jochen Kuhn4228.28
Andreas Dengel51926280.42