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Authors:
Yoshimasa Ohmoto
Takahiro Matsuda
Toyoaki Nishida
Keywords: Skill acquisition model; Mental state estimation; Physiological indices.
Abstract:
There are many tasks for which people need domain-specific skills learned through long-term practice. Many skill acquisition models have been proposed that include the mental states of the learners, but only few studies have tried to estimate mental states using objectively measured data. The purpose of this study was to experimentally investigate whether the status of the skill acquisition process could be estimated by physiological indices that indicate the learner's mental states. For this purpose, we conducted an experiment to obtain data on physiological indices and a subjective report of the feeling of difficulty during the skill acquisition task. As a result, we confirmed the relationship between the participant's statuses and the physiological indices. In addition, we classified the trials with the feeling of difficulty in the experiment using Support Vector Machine. As a result, the values of accuracy were over 0.65 when the data not used to calculate the SVM model were classified. We could show that the physiological indices are helpful clues to estimate the status of the skill acquisition process.
Pages: 127 to 136
Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2017. Used with permission.
Publication date: December 31, 2017
Published in: journal
ISSN: 1942-2660