Supporting data for "Exploring the Effect of Background Music on Visual Cognitive Tasks with Multimodal Learning Analytics"

This dataset supports the research titled "Exploring the Effect of Background Music on Visual Cognitive Tasks with Multimodal Learning Analytics". This research comprises two user studies, each focusing on a visual cognitive task: a reading comprehension task (study 1) and a virtual cultural heritage learning task (study 2).

This research integrated multimodal data sources at both behavioral and physiological levels, including task performance, self-reports, neural responses, eye-tracking data, and heart rates, to examine the effects of background music on the two visual cognitive tasks. In addition, the dataset includes interview transcripts from participants in both tasks, providing qualitative evidence to understand their thoughts and feelings about learning with background music.

The dataset comprises quantitative and qualitative data from the two user studies. The quantitative data are stored in the Excel file titled "thesis quantitative dataset.xlsx", which contains two sheets: (1) "study 1_passage level_dataset", and (2) "study 2_scene level_dataset". The two sheets provide basic participant and experiment information, along with behavioral and physiological measures recorded when the participants performed the reading comprehension task (study 1) or the virtual cultural heritage learning task (study 2) with or without background music. The qualitative data are organized in the folder "thesis qualitative dataset", which includes two sub-folders: (1) "study 1 transcripts", and (2) "study 2 transcripts", containing the participants' interview responses from the respective study 1 and study 2.