CyberPsychological Computation on Social Community of Ubiquitous Learning

• Main Authors: Xuan Zhou, Genghui Dai, Shuang Huang, Xuemin Sun, Feng Hu, Hongzhi Hu, Mirjana Ivanović
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hindawi Limited 2015-01-01
• Series: Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/812650

Under the modern network environment, ubiquitous learning has been a popular way for people to study knowledge, exchange ideas, and share skills in the cyberspace. Existing research findings indicate that the learners’ initiative and community cohesion play vital roles in the social communities of ubiquitous learning, and therefore how to stimulate the learners’ interest and participation willingness so as to improve their enjoyable experiences in the learning process should be the primary consideration on this issue. This paper aims to explore an effective method to monitor the learners’ psychological reactions based on their behavioral features in cyberspace and therefore provide useful references for adjusting the strategies in the learning process. In doing so, this paper firstly analyzes the psychological assessment of the learners’ situations as well as their typical behavioral patterns and then discusses the relationship between the learners’ psychological reactions and their observable features in cyberspace. Finally, this paper puts forward a CyberPsychological computation method to estimate the learners’ psychological states online. Considering the diversity of learners’ habitual behaviors in the reactions to their psychological changes, a BP-GA neural network is proposed for the computation based on their personalized behavioral patterns.