About the presenter
Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea
Session Description
“Preservice Teachers’ Emotional Experiences in a Virtual Teaching Simulation: Analysis of Facial Expression Recognition“
This study investigated preservice teachers’ emotional experiences while interacting within a virtual scenario-based teacher-training system called Simulation for Teaching Enhancement of Authentic Classroom beHavior Emulator (SimTEACHER). Three research questions were (1) What are the effects of the type of interactions designed within SimTEACHER on preservice teachers’ key performance indicators (KPIs)? (2) What are the effects of the type of interactions designed within SimTEACHER on preservice teachers’ emotional valence? (3) What are the effects of the type of interactions designed within SimTEACHER on pre-service teachers’ key emotions? We created three types of interactions (no interaction, unexpected interaction, and expected interaction) within SimTEACHER and examined the influences of the interaction design on preservice teachers’ emotional responses in three aspects: key performance indicators (attention, emotional engagement, and sentiment), emotional valence (positive, neutral, and negative), and four basic emotions (joy, sadness, fear, and anger). Fourteen preservice teachers from a 4-year public university in southwestern South Korea participated in this study. The data of the participants’ emotional expressions were collected using the Emotient software, which has been widely used for automated facial expression recognition and analysis. A series of one-way repeated-measured Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) indicated that participants experienced higher positive and neutral emotions, higher emotional engagement, and a higher feeling of joy when they engaged in unexpected interactions than when they engaged in expected interactions or no interactions.