TY - GEN
T1 - Investigating the Potential of EEG for Implicit Detection of Unknown Words for Foreign Language Learning
AU - Schneegass, Christina
AU - Kosch, Thomas
AU - Schmidt, Albrecht
AU - Hussmann, Heinrich
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Ubiquitous technologies change the way we learn new languages. They provide easy access to multilingual media content within everyday scenarios to enhance language skills or improve vocabulary. The detection of learners’ vocabulary deficiencies is an integral part of effective language learning. However, retrieving translations during everyday media consumption causes inattention and hinders fluent learning. In this paper, we investigate Electroencephalography (EEG) to assess single-word incomprehension within non-native learning contents. In a user study (N = 10), we employed Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP) to display text while recording Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) for different word difficulties. Our results show that incomprehension of words can be detected in participants’ neural responses, as is confirmed by post hoc ratings. We conclude with use case scenarios in which our approach can facilitate seamless vocabulary deficiency detection in everyday life.
AB - Ubiquitous technologies change the way we learn new languages. They provide easy access to multilingual media content within everyday scenarios to enhance language skills or improve vocabulary. The detection of learners’ vocabulary deficiencies is an integral part of effective language learning. However, retrieving translations during everyday media consumption causes inattention and hinders fluent learning. In this paper, we investigate Electroencephalography (EEG) to assess single-word incomprehension within non-native learning contents. In a user study (N = 10), we employed Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP) to display text while recording Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) for different word difficulties. Our results show that incomprehension of words can be detected in participants’ neural responses, as is confirmed by post hoc ratings. We conclude with use case scenarios in which our approach can facilitate seamless vocabulary deficiency detection in everyday life.
KW - EEG
KW - Implicit interaction
KW - Language proficiency detection
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85072863175&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-29387-1_17
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-29387-1_17
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85072863175
SN - 978-3-030-29386-4
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 293
EP - 313
BT - Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2019 - 17th IFIP TC 13 International Conference, Proceedings
A2 - Lamas, David
A2 - Loizides, Fernando
A2 - Nacke, Lennart
A2 - Petrie, Helen
A2 - Winckler, Marco
A2 - Zaphiris, Panayiotis
PB - Springer
T2 - 17th IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, INTERACT 2019
Y2 - 2 September 2019 through 6 September 2019
ER -