Evaluation of Deep Flow in Psychology During Reading Using a Life-Log Device

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With the current spread of the Internet, information is being collected in various ways, such as watching videos. However, the basis of information collection is reading sentences, with books as typical media. Books comprise both print books and e-books, but many people find that paper-based books are easier to read than e-books. Therefore, a commonly used learning method is reading print books. However, reading on paper is easily affected by the reader’s situation, such as the surrounding brightness, environmental sound, and posture. Although there are many environmental factors, in this experiment, we focused on the environmental lighting. The purpose of this study is to determine an environment where one can concentrate on reading. For that purpose, we evaluate and determine the flow, which is the feeling of being immersed, via the number of blinks, head movement, and subjective information. It was found that local lighting results in greater head acceleration and angular velocity values, but the number of pages to be read is greater and the reading experience time is shorter. Therefore, although the experiment was limited to five subjects, it can be said that an environment is more suitable for reading when local lighting is used.