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Behavioral and

Psychological Metrics
Tullis, T. & Albert, B. (2008). Measuring the User Experience: Collecting, Analyzing, and Presenting Usability
Metrics
Observing and coding overt behaviors

• Verbal behaviors
• Non-verbal behaviors
Boredom
Confusion
Delight
Frustration
Engaged concentration
On-task, solitary
On-task, giving and receiving answers
Other on-task conversation (probably)
Off-task solitary
Data requiring equipment to
capture
• Facial expressions
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdQw8PSV2P8
Data requiring equipment
• Eye-tracking
• Proportion of users looking at specific element
• Time to notice an element
• Scan paths
• The subject of a longer discussion!
Data requiring equipment
• Skin conductance
• Posture
• Pressure
• Brain signals
• Motion
Instruments
Instruments
Instruments
Instruments

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Instruments

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Better to be frustrated…
• Observations of student emotions and behaviors in
three computer-based learning environments
Autotutor
The Incredible Machine
Aplusix
Incidence of affective states
Persistence of affective states
Likelihood to game

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