Exploring the potential of AI in nurturing learner empathy, prosocial values and environmental stewardship

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Autores principales: Lim, Kenneth Y T, Duc, Minh Anh Nguyen, Thien, Minh Tuan Nguyen
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author Lim, Kenneth Y T
Duc, Minh Anh Nguyen
Thien, Minh Tuan Nguyen
author_facet Lim, Kenneth Y T
Duc, Minh Anh Nguyen
Thien, Minh Tuan Nguyen
contents With Artificial Intelligence (AI) becoming a powerful tool for education (Zawacki-Richter et al., 2019), this chapter describes the concept of combining generative and traditional AI, citizen-science physiological, neuroergonomic wearables and environmental sensors into activities for learners to understand their own well-being and emotional states better with a view to developing empathy and environmental stewardship. Alongside bespoke and affordable wearables (DIY EEG headsets and biometric wristbands), interpretable AI and data science are used for learners to explore how the environment affects them physiologically and mentally in authentic environments. For example, relationships between environmental changes (e.g. poorer air quality) and their well-being (e.g. cognitive functioning) can be discovered. This is particularly crucial, as relevant knowledge can influence the way people treat the environment, as suggested by the disciplines of environmental neuroscience and environmental psychology (Doell et al., 2023). Yet, according to Palme and Salvati, there have been relatively few studies on the relationships between microclimates and human health and emotions (Palme and Salvati, 2021). As anthropogenic environmental pollution is becoming a prevalent problem, our research also aims to leverage on generative AI to introduce hypothetical scenarios of the environment as emotionally strong stimuli of relevance to the learners. This would provoke an emotional response for them to learn about their own physiological and neurological responses (using neuro-physiological data). Ultimately, we hope to establish a bidirectional understanding of how the environment affects humans physiologically and mentally; after which, to gain insights as to how AI can be used to effectively foster empathy, pro-environmental attitudes and stewardship.
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spellingShingle Exploring the potential of AI in nurturing learner empathy, prosocial values and environmental stewardship
Lim, Kenneth Y T
Duc, Minh Anh Nguyen
Thien, Minh Tuan Nguyen
Human-Computer Interaction
With Artificial Intelligence (AI) becoming a powerful tool for education (Zawacki-Richter et al., 2019), this chapter describes the concept of combining generative and traditional AI, citizen-science physiological, neuroergonomic wearables and environmental sensors into activities for learners to understand their own well-being and emotional states better with a view to developing empathy and environmental stewardship. Alongside bespoke and affordable wearables (DIY EEG headsets and biometric wristbands), interpretable AI and data science are used for learners to explore how the environment affects them physiologically and mentally in authentic environments. For example, relationships between environmental changes (e.g. poorer air quality) and their well-being (e.g. cognitive functioning) can be discovered. This is particularly crucial, as relevant knowledge can influence the way people treat the environment, as suggested by the disciplines of environmental neuroscience and environmental psychology (Doell et al., 2023). Yet, according to Palme and Salvati, there have been relatively few studies on the relationships between microclimates and human health and emotions (Palme and Salvati, 2021). As anthropogenic environmental pollution is becoming a prevalent problem, our research also aims to leverage on generative AI to introduce hypothetical scenarios of the environment as emotionally strong stimuli of relevance to the learners. This would provoke an emotional response for them to learn about their own physiological and neurological responses (using neuro-physiological data). Ultimately, we hope to establish a bidirectional understanding of how the environment affects humans physiologically and mentally; after which, to gain insights as to how AI can be used to effectively foster empathy, pro-environmental attitudes and stewardship.
title Exploring the potential of AI in nurturing learner empathy, prosocial values and environmental stewardship
topic Human-Computer Interaction
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.15906