As readers of a language, we all agree to move our eyes in roughly the same way. Yet might
there be hidden within this self-similar behavior subtle clues as to how a reader is …

Multiple-choice questions are often used to assess the user's understanding. However, the
system does not know if the user answered randomly, by chance, with confidence or without …

This paper presents an approach for identifying reader specific difficult words while
someone is reading a textual document. The work is motivated by the need of developing …

Analyzing the eye gaze to estimate the text understanding is a good way to overcome the
drawbacks of classic question based assessment tests. In particular it does not suffer from …

Spoken language variation analysis is increasingly considered in multimodal settings
combining knowledge from computer, human and social sciences. This work focuses on …

We present in this paper a detailed comparison of different algorithms and devices to
determine the number of words read in everyday life. We call our system the “Wordometer” …

This paper describes a method to collect data of which section of pages learners were
browsing in digital textbooks without eye-tracking technologies. In previous researches on …

The integration of ubiquitous technologies in the field of education has considerably
enhanced our way of learning. Such technologies enable students to get a gradual feedback …

Annotation is an effective reading strategy people often undertake while interacting with
digital text. It involves highlighting pieces of text and making notes about them. Annotating …

The traditional way to analyze the content of a document is to perform document image
analysis. However, analyzing how the user perceives a document is another way to get …