Researchers in England have come up with a way to enable computers to tell if you are bored or interested in what you're seeing on the screen, a development that could help develop better digital learning experiences.
In a study led by Harry Witchel, Discipline Leader in Physiology at Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS), subjects were found to make fewer "non-instrumental movements" -- tiny involuntary movements in areas like the head and thighs -- when at rapt attention with what they were viewing. A handheld trackball was used by 27 study participants to limit their usual involuntary movements.
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