On January 29, 2025, TSUDA Sakura (a third-year student at the NAKAMURA Satoshi Laboratory, Department of Frontier Media Science) received a student encouragement award at the meeting of the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Research Group of the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ), held at the Okinawa Industry Support Center.
This award honors students for outstanding presentations. TSUDA presented on “Investigating how the presence or absence of darkness and lightness expressed by digital pen pressure affects understanding for arithmetic questions.” In the field of education, learning using digital devices is also practiced, but most products do not express pen pressure when users write on tablets with a pen.
TSUDA noted potential issues of these pens and investigated the effect of the presence or absence of pressure-sensitive expressions on learning comprehension. In the study, an experiment was conducted to measure the degree of comprehension of the learned content on questions equivalent to junior high school entrance exams. The results revealed that both the correct answer rate and the degree of comprehension were higher under conditions where the depth of the content changed with pen pressure than under conditions where the depth of the content did not change with pen pressure. In the future, she plans to conduct experiments on elementary school students to clarify the problems with these devices.
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