Modeling the Incubation Effect Among Students Playing an Educational Game for Physics
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
6-23-2017
Abstract
We attempted to model the Incubation Effect, a phenomenon in which a momentary break helps the generation of a solution to a problem, among students playing Physics Playground. We performed a logistic regression analysis to predict the outcome of the incubation using a genetic algorithm for feature selection. Out of 14 candidate features, those that significantly predicted the outcome were total badges earned prior to post-incubation, the problem’s level of difficulty, total attempts made prior to post-incubation, and time interval of post-incubation. We found evidence that incubation in the earlier part of the game is more beneficial than breaks at the later part where students may already be mentally exhausted.
Recommended Citation
Talandron M.M.P., Rodrigo M.M.T., Beck J.E. (2017) Modeling the Incubation Effect Among Students Playing an Educational Game for Physics. In: André E., Baker R., Hu X., Rodrigo M., du Boulay B. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Education. AIED 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10331. Springer, Cham
