Are We in The Zone? Exploring The Features and Method of Detecting Simultaneous Flow Experiences Based on EEG Signals

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Main Authors: Zhang, Baiqiao, Li, Xiangxian, Zhou, Yunfan, Liu, Juan, Liu, Weiying, Zhou, Chao, Bian, Yulong
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author Zhang, Baiqiao
Li, Xiangxian
Zhou, Yunfan
Liu, Juan
Liu, Weiying
Zhou, Chao
Bian, Yulong
author_facet Zhang, Baiqiao
Li, Xiangxian
Zhou, Yunfan
Liu, Juan
Liu, Weiying
Zhou, Chao
Bian, Yulong
contents When executing interdependent personal tasks for the team's purpose, simultaneous individual flow(simultaneous flow) is the antecedent condition of achieving shared team flow. Detecting simultaneous flow helps better understanding the status of team members, which is thus important for optimizing multi-user interaction systems. However, there is currently a lack exploration on objective features and methods for detecting simultaneous flow. Based on brain mechanism of flow in teamwork and previous studies on electroencephalogram (EEG)-based individual flow detection, this study aims to explore the significant EEG features related to simultaneous flow, as well as effective detection methods based on EEG signals. First, a two-player simultaneous flow task is designed, based on which we construct the first multi-EEG signals dataset of simultaneous flow. Then, we explore the potential EEG signal features that may be related to individual and simultaneous flow and validate their effectiveness in simultaneous flow detection with various machine learning models. The results show that 1) the inter-brain synchrony features are relevant to simultaneous flow due to enhancing the models' performance in detecting different types of simultaneous flow; 2) the features from the frontal lobe area seem to be given priority attention when detecting simultaneous flows; 3) Random Forests performed best in binary classification while Neural Network and Deep Neural Network3 performed best in ternary classification.
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spellingShingle Are We in The Zone? Exploring The Features and Method of Detecting Simultaneous Flow Experiences Based on EEG Signals
Zhang, Baiqiao
Li, Xiangxian
Zhou, Yunfan
Liu, Juan
Liu, Weiying
Zhou, Chao
Bian, Yulong
Human-Computer Interaction
When executing interdependent personal tasks for the team's purpose, simultaneous individual flow(simultaneous flow) is the antecedent condition of achieving shared team flow. Detecting simultaneous flow helps better understanding the status of team members, which is thus important for optimizing multi-user interaction systems. However, there is currently a lack exploration on objective features and methods for detecting simultaneous flow. Based on brain mechanism of flow in teamwork and previous studies on electroencephalogram (EEG)-based individual flow detection, this study aims to explore the significant EEG features related to simultaneous flow, as well as effective detection methods based on EEG signals. First, a two-player simultaneous flow task is designed, based on which we construct the first multi-EEG signals dataset of simultaneous flow. Then, we explore the potential EEG signal features that may be related to individual and simultaneous flow and validate their effectiveness in simultaneous flow detection with various machine learning models. The results show that 1) the inter-brain synchrony features are relevant to simultaneous flow due to enhancing the models' performance in detecting different types of simultaneous flow; 2) the features from the frontal lobe area seem to be given priority attention when detecting simultaneous flows; 3) Random Forests performed best in binary classification while Neural Network and Deep Neural Network3 performed best in ternary classification.
title Are We in The Zone? Exploring The Features and Method of Detecting Simultaneous Flow Experiences Based on EEG Signals
topic Human-Computer Interaction
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02045