Users focus on the characters while playing!

The eye tracker that was used to detect what the game's user was focusing on.

The figure above displays how a user's sight was tracked.

The figure above shows the experiment in progress.

In order to get Hanjamaru up to snuff, educationally speaking, Eduflo decided to do some research as to whether students were concentrating on the game’s flaming swords, pretty backgrounds or the Chinese characters themselves, which are the real meat and potatoes of the game. In order to test what images players concentrate on while playing the game, Eduflo tracked the eye movement of players as they progressed through different levels of play. The results of the experiment were overwhelmingly conclusive that users are focusing on the actual Chinese characters 76.3% of the time!

Surveys have shown that the average Korean elementary school student spends around 2 hours a day playing video games. If those 2 hours spent playing an assortment of video games purely for entertainment were spent on studying, a student could learn a whole new skill, such as language ability or musical talent, and learn it rapidly. Given the fact that students spend 3/4 of the time playing Hanjamaru concentrating on Chinese characters, if the average of 2 hours of game play was spent on Hanjamaru instead of on a game that was only constructed for the purpose of pure entertainment, the student would spend an average of 1.5 hours a day studying Chinese characters!