MIYAZAKI Yuki, a third-year student in the Department of Frontier Media Science, School of Interdisciplinary Mathematical Sciences, won the HCG Symposium 2023 Student Excellent Interactive Presentation Award. The HCG Symposium 2023 Student Excellent Interactive Presentation Award is given to outstanding interactive presentations.
The award-winning research is titled “Investigating how the presence or absence of darkness and lightness expressed by digital pen pressure affect answers for geometry questions.”
Pens without pressure sensitivity for tablets have been introduced in the field of education to cut costs, and even some expensive pens, such as the Apple Pencil (USB-C), do not have a pressure sensor. Digital pens without a pressure sensing function are thought to cause various problems because they cannot express a line’s thickness and thinness, and darkness and lightness according to the strength of pen pressure.
Focusing on this point, MIYAZAKI implemented a system to conduct experiments on how it would particularly affect geometry questions in math classes. The result of his experiments has revealed that the number of correct answers drops when thickness and thinness cannot be expressed by adjusting pen pressure, and there is a difference especially in the situation where the examinees are trying different approaches to solve questions.
In the future, his research will be applied to a variety of problems and verified in the field of education.
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