Blinking Eyes Behaviors and Face Temperatures of Students in YouTube Lessons – For the Future E-learning Class

Abstract

Nowadays, e-learning and the application of ICT to learning in various ways are going to move to the forefront of education due to various reasons. However, the learning style often lacks the characteristics of students’ synchronized feedback in the class simultaneously, even though the information is always needed to achieve the tutorial effectiveness and educational outcomes in the virtual class. Some of the current authors have investigated the application of biological data, the number of eye blinks, to e-learning or distance learning on research based and confirmed that the changed behaviour of the number corresponded to the difficulty of the problems to some extent. In this experiment, we issued YouTube as the educational tool and investigated the correlation between biological data, blinking eyes, facial surface temperature measured by infrared thermography and students’ psychological behaviors. The blinking eyes behavior seemed to reflect the examinees’ confusion at the initial stage of the video session. On the other hand, the measurement of facial surface temperatures should be revised and modified, since the current methods did not take the effect of external temperatures and also the appropriateness of sampling into account. However, we presume at least that the blinking eyes could be applied to the feedback tool of students’ responses also in the e-learning by YouTube video sessions.