The functional theory of boredom maintains that ought to be defined in terms its role our mental and behavioral economy. Although the has recently received considerable attention, presentations this have not specified with sufficient precision either commitments or consequences for ontology boredom. This essay offers an in-depth examination theory. It explains what is according view; it shows h...

Given the growing popularity of video gaming and off-the shelf electroencephalographic (EEG) devices like the Emotiv, there is a growing need for methods of measuring gamer experience in real-time. Engagement indices developed to monitor human engagement have yet to be implemented with the Emotiv. In this study, we compared three different engagement indices during various video game modalities...

BACKGROUND Students with attention/deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) continue to languish behind their peers with regard to academic achievement and education attainment. School engagement is potentially modifiable, and targeting engagement may be a means to improve education outcomes. AIMS To investigate school engagement for students with ADHD during the crucial high school transition p...

The quasi-experimental classroom study reported in this paper compared the eff ectiveness of three adult EFL course delivery modes – face-to-face group classes, one-to-one private tutoring and online self-study by analysing learners’ cognitive engagement, understood as level participation, involvement ort learners each mode they completed same language tasks. was conducted within a Vygotskian s...

In this paper we are interested in the computational and formal analysis of the persuasive impact that an argument can have on a human. We present a preliminary account of the listener mental process (representation and reasoning mechanisms of the dual process cognitive model) as well as her engagement based on the ELM model. This engagement determines the reasoning process that the agent will ...