Publication detail

Modeling students' flow experience through data logs in gamified educational systems

OLIVEIRA, W. ISOTANI, S. PASTUSHENKO, O. HAMARI, J. HRUŠKA, T.

Original Title

Modeling students' flow experience through data logs in gamified educational systems

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

User modeling in gamified educational systems is a contemporary challenge. In particular, modeling the students' flow experience (i.e., challenge-skill balance, action-awareness merging, clear goals, unambiguous feedback, total concentration on the task at hand, sense of control, loss of self-consciousness, transformation of time, and autotelic experience) during a gamified system usage is highly challenging. It is because measurement' instruments usually are invasive, removing the users from the flow experience and/or cannot be applied massively (e.g., participant observation, questionnaires or electroencephalogram). We faced this challenge by conducting a data-driven study (N = 23), where we used a robust statistical method (i.e., partial least squares path modeling) to model the students' flow experience, based on their interaction data (e.g., number of mouse clicks) in a gamified educational system. The main results indicate a relationship between the interaction logs and four flow experience dimensions. Our finds contribute to the area of gamified educational systems, through the students' flow experience modeling. Finally, based on our results, we also provided a series of recommendations for future studies.

Keywords

Flow experience; Flow Theory; Gamified educational systems; Students'experience; User modeling

Authors

OLIVEIRA, W.; ISOTANI, S.; PASTUSHENKO, O.; HAMARI, J.; HRUŠKA, T.

Released

10. 12. 2021

Publisher

IEEE Communications Society

Location

online

ISBN

978-1-6654-4106-3

Book

Proceedings - IEEE 21st International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2021

Pages from

97

Pages to

101

Pages count

5

URL

https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/12700/

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT177492,
  author="OLIVEIRA, W. and ISOTANI, S. and PASTUSHENKO, O. and HAMARI, J. and HRUŠKA, T.",
  title="Modeling students' flow experience through data logs in gamified educational systems",
  booktitle="Proceedings - IEEE 21st International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2021",
  year="2021",
  pages="97--101",
  publisher="IEEE Communications Society",
  address="online",
  doi="10.1109/ICALT52272.2021.00037",
  isbn="978-1-6654-4106-3",
  url="https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/12700/"
}