Mind wandering during reading: An interdisciplinary and integrative review of psychological, computing, and intervention research and theory

SK D'Mello, CS Mills - Language and Linguistics Compass, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
A large proportion of thoughts are internally generated. Of these, mind wandering—when
attention shifts away from the current activity to an internal stream of thought—is frequent …

Continuous user identification in distance learning: a recent technology perspective

D Portugal, JN Faria, M Belk, P Martins… - Smart learning …, 2023 - Springer
The worldwide shift to distance learning at Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) during the
COVID-19 global pandemic has raised several concerns about the credibility of online …

On the necessity of distinguishing between unintentional and intentional mind wandering

P Seli, EF Risko, D Smilek - Psychological science, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
In recent years, there has been an enormous increase in the number of studies examining
mind wandering. Although participants' reports of mind wandering are often assumed to …

Advanced, analytic, automated (AAA) measurement of engagement during learning

S D'Mello, E Dieterle, A Duckworth - Educational psychologist, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
It is generally acknowledged that engagement plays a critical role in learning. Unfortunately,
the study of engagement has been stymied by a lack of valid and efficient measures. We …

Webcam-based eye tracking to detect mind wandering and comprehension errors

S Hutt, A Wong, A Papoutsaki, RS Baker… - Behavior Research …, 2024 - Springer
Recent advances in computer vision have opened the door for scalable eye tracking using
only a webcam. Such solutions are particularly useful for online educational technologies, in …

Multimodal engagement analysis from facial videos in the classroom

Ö Sümer, P Goldberg, S D'Mello… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Student engagement is a key component of learning and teaching, resulting in a plethora of
automated methods to measure it. Whereas most of the literature explores student …

An automated behavioral measure of mind wandering during computerized reading

M Faber, R Bixler, SK D'Mello - Behavior Research Methods, 2018 - Springer
Mind wandering is a ubiquitous phenomenon in which attention shifts from task-related to
task-unrelated thoughts. The last decade has witnessed an explosion of interest in mind …

Mind wandering during lectures II: Relation to academic performance.

JD Wammes, P Seli, JA Cheyne… - … of Teaching and …, 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
We explored whether students'(N= 154) engagement in mind wandering (both intentional
and unintentional forms) throughout a 12-week undergraduate course was related to their …

Automatic gaze-based user-independent detection of mind wandering during computerized reading

R Bixler, S D'Mello - User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, 2016 - Springer
Mind wandering is a ubiquitous phenomenon where attention involuntarily shifts from task-
related thoughts to internal task-unrelated thoughts. Mind wandering can have negative …

n-gage: Predicting in-class emotional, behavioural and cognitive engagement in the wild

N Gao, W Shao, MS Rahaman, FD Salim - Proceedings of the ACM on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
The study of student engagement has attracted growing interests to address problems such
as low academic performance, disaffection, and high dropout rates. Existing approaches to …