Ontology-based Systemization Approach to Capture Meta-level Thinking Processes from Gaze Behaviors

Abstract

It is difficult to capture a person’s thinking processes because of the invisible, shapeless, complex structure of thought. In order to approach implicit thinking processes, we propose a framework for capturing a portion of meta-level thinking processes from gaze behaviors. Here, we focus on the meta-level thinking processes in the dissolution of belief conflicts, and introduce the concept of semi-metacognitive-level thinking, which allows us to make assumptions about the monitoring/control cycle based on gaze behaviors toward externalization objects of base-level thinking. In this paper, we discuss a framework for capturing metacognitive thinking processes from gaze behaviors and propose an ontology to embody the concept of the framework.