Eye movement patterns in solving scientific graph problems

Miao Hsuan Yen; Chieh Ning Lee; Yu Chun Yang

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-31223-6_46

Eye movement patterns in solving scientific graph problems

Miao Hsuan Yen^*, Chieh Ning Lee, Yu Chun Yang

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Graduate Institute of Science Education

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Eye movement patterns of science- and non-science students in solving scientific graph problems were compared. Experts (science-students) tended to spend more time, compared to novices, to comprehend the questions during the first run / inspection. Concerning the main graph region, both the True and False subregions (corresponding to correct and wrong answer choices, respectively) were inspected carefully during the first run. Significant differences were observed in the second run, in which the False region was fixated longer when participants made wrong responses.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	343-345
Number of pages	3
Journal	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	7352 LNAI
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31223-6_46
Publication status	Published - 2012
Event	7th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams, Diagrams 2012 - Canterbury, United Kingdom Duration: 2012 Jul 2 → 2012 Jul 6

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expertise
eye movements
graph comprehension

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Theoretical Computer Science
General Computer Science

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