Introducing Eye Movement Modeling Examples for Programming Education and the Role of Teacher's Didactic Guidance

ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications (ETRA), pp. 1–4

Abstract

In this article, we introduce how eye-tracking technology might become a promising tool to teach programming skills, such as debugging with ‘Eye Movement Modeling Examples’ (EMME). EMME are tutorial videos that visualize an expert's (e.g., a programming teacher's) eye movements during task performance to guide students’ attention, e.g., as a moving dot or circle. We first introduce the general idea behind the EMME method and present studies that showed first promising results regarding the benefits of EMME to support programming education. However, we argue that the instructional design of EMME varies notably across them, as evidence-based guidelines on how to create effective EMME are often lacking. As an example, we present our ongoing research on the effects of different ways to instruct the EMME model prior to video creation. Finally, we highlight open questions for future investigations that could help improving the design of EMME for (programming) education.

Authors 5

1. Selina N. Emhardt

   Open University of the Netherlands

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   Open Universiteit, Netherlands

2. Halszka M. Jarodzka

   Open University of the Netherlands

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   Open Universiteit

3. Saskia Brand‐Gruwel

   Zuyd University of Applied Sciences

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   Zuyd Hogeschool

4. Christian Drumm Aachen

   FH Aachen

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   FH Aachen University of Applied Sciences

5. Tamara van Gog

   Utrecht University

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   Utrecht University