TAEMILE: Towards Automating Experience Management in Interactive Learning Environments
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This is a list of some of the project's publications.
- J. Valls-Vargas, A. Kahl, J. Patterson, G. Muschio, A. Foster, J. Zhu (2015). Designing and Tracking Play Styles in Solving the Incognitum. GLS 2015. [PDF pp. 241-247]
- @inproceedings{valls2015gls,
- Author = {Valls-Vargas, Josep and Kahl, Andrew and Patterson, Justin and Muschio, Glen and Foster, Aroutis and Zhu, Jichen},
- Booktitle = {Proceedings of the Games + Learning + Society Conference},
- Date-Modified = {2015-07-01 21:12:07 +0000},
- Keywords = {educational games, player modeling, ILE},
- Organization = {Games + Learning + Society},
- Pages = {to appear},
- Title = {Designing and Tracking Play Styles in Solving the Incognitum},
- Year = {2015},
- }
The game environment has been designed to record game events in a log file and transmit game telemetry. The telemetry data captures movement and interaction variables and can be used to recreate the play session.
A copy of the log files will be stored in your system's persistentDataPath.
The events recorded are:
- Close: close a card
- End: finish the game
- Focus: open a card
- HelpCardShown: a tutorial item is shown on screen
- InfoBox: the card is visible
- InventoryNew: they visited a new exhibit
- KeyDown
- KeyUp
- Look: looked at an object in the environment (not only exhibits)
- MapHoover
- MapHooverOut
- MastodonAll
- MastodonNew: they got a new bone
- MouseDown
- MouseMoveD: mouse movement
- MouseMoveS: mouse movement
- MouseMoveV: mouse movement
- MouseUp
- Navigate: they started walking
- PauseMenu: open/close the concept map
- QuestionAsk: a question is asked
- QuestionCardAnswerFalse: they answered wrong
- QuestionCardAnswerTrue: they answered correctly
- Track: activity, position, camera rotation and heading every 500ms
Some of the events have additional parameters, here are some examples:
- QuestionCardAnswerTrue/Jefferson: the current card
- MastodonNew/Portrait: the type of exhibit
- MouseMoveV/0.5640188: movement speed
- PauseMenu/Pause: opening the concept map
- HelpCardShown/6: the sixth card of the tutorial is shown
- MouseDown/0: the left mouse button has been pressed
- Close/MastodonBone4: the current card
- MouseUp/1: the right mouse button has been depressed
- PauseMenu/Unpause: closing the concept map
The log files are segmented into chunks using different strategies and each chunk is transformed into a feature vector with the following features:
- # of transitions between quest and optional lines (by exhibits belonging to lines)
- # of lines visited (by exhibits belonging to lines)
- minimum amount of time spent reading a card
- maximum amount of time spent reading a card
- average amount of time spent reading cards
- minimum amount of time spent reading a question
- maximum amount of time spent reading a question
- average amount of time spent reading questions
- average distance from beacon located in the NW corner of the room
- average distance from beacon located in the SE corner of the room
- average distance from beacon located in the NE corner of the room
- distance walked (M)
- average walking speed (M/X)
- time of the current segment (X)
- time spent in cards (reading and answering questions) (A)
- time spent checking the concept map (quest tracking tool) (B)
- time spent navigating the environment (not in cards nor in concept map) (C)
- ratio of time spent in cards (A/X)
- ratio of time spent checking the concept map (B/X)
- ratio of time spent navigating (C/X)
- # of times the concept map (quest tracking tool) has been opened (M)
- # of items hovered with the mouse while in the concept map (N)
- # of times an item in the quest lines has been hovered (R)
- ratio of times hovering a quest item and non-quest items (R/N)
- # of different items hovered
- # of items hovered for less than 500ms
- average time an item is hovered on with the mouse (T/(R-S))
- average # of items hovered each time the concept map is opened (N/M)
- average time spent at the concept map when opened (B/M)
- # of times concept map opened was opened within 5 seconds
- # of key presses (down) (O)
- # of mouse button presses (down) (P)
- # of events recorded (Q)
- key presses per second (O/X)
- mouse button presses per second (P/X)
- events recorded per second (Q/X)
- # of questions answered correctly (D)
- # of questions answered incorrectly (E)
- # of questions answered correctly in a row
- ratio of questions answered correctly (D/(D+E))
- ratio of questions answered incorrectly (E/(D+E))
- # of words shown in cards
- average reading speed for each visit in a card
- average reading speed for visits and revisits in cards (i.e. revisiting an exhibit increases the average)
- # of words shown in questions
- average reading speed for each visit in a question
- average reading speed for visits and revisits in questions (i.e. revisiting an exhibit increases the average)
- # of new items visited (F)
- # of items revisited (G)
- # of visits (F+G)
- # of new questions visited (H)
- # of questions revisited (I)
- # of questions (H+I)
- time spent in exhibits completing a quest (J)
- time spent in exhibits in quest lines (K)
- time spent in exhibits in optional lines (L)
- ratio of time spent in exhibits that complete a quest (J/A)
- ratio of time spent in exhibits in quest lines (K/A)
- whether one of 10 specific patterns of interaction (sequences of 3 to 7 actions) happened (e.g., open concept map, walk, interact with an exhibit on a quest line, open the concept map)
- some additional identification related to the session (e.g., telemetry ID) and gameplay (e.g., screen resolution, date/time started)