Estimation of Degree of Interest during Walking using an EDA Sensor ~ Toward Quantitative Exhibition Evaluation in Museums ~

Abstract

People can learn from exhibitions in museums; learning in museums is influenced by people's, especially children's, interest in exhibitions. To assess interest, we perform quantitative evaluation for the case when a person is required to learn from an exhibition in a museum that requires body movement. Electrodermal activity (EDA) is known as a method for quantitatively evaluating human interest. However, whether it can be used to quantitatively evaluate interest when a person is moving has not been confirmed yet. Therefore, in this study, we focus on walking as human movement and conduct experiments aiming to quantitatively evaluate their interest while walking. In the experiment, we measure the EDA while providing a visual interest to a subject walking at a constant speed. We confirm that the change in the EDA will be large if there is visual interest during walking, which suggests that the interest during walking can be quantitatively evaluated.