Analysis of interactions between adolescents and young adults in the process of jointly solving an educational task using eye-tracking technology

<p style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="en-US">Context.</span><span lang="en-US"> The article presents a multi-user logic online game «Interference in the Air», developed within the framework of the project «Study of Cognitive and Communicative Processes in Adolescents and Young Men when Solving Game and Educational Tasks in Digital Environments». The theoretical and methodological basis of this game is the theory of educational activity by V.V. Davydov and the socio-genetic method by V.V. Rubtsov. </span><span lang="en-US">Objective.</span><span lang="en-US"> Identification of the features of oculomotor activity in participants of joint activities at various stages of the formation of their interaction methods. </span><span lang="en-US">Materials and Methods.</span><span lang="en-US"> An experimental study using the developed online game was conducted with the use of the video oculography module NTrend-ET500. The research sample consisted of 30 adolescents and young men aged 13 to 20 years (M=17.11, SD=2.00, 67% female) from Moscow. </span><span lang="en-US">Conclusions.</span><span lang="en-US"> The data on oculographic activity of participants in joint activities can, firstly, be significant indicators of cognitive processes arising among the participants and related to the analysis and evaluation of patterns according to which the participants transform the subject field of the task. Secondly, they can act as indicators of changes in the very ways of interaction between the participants. Thirdly, they make it possible to distinguish between individual and joint forms of organizing the participants' activities. The conducted research reveals new prospects in the field of objective study of features, structure, dynamics of formation and development of interaction methods that arise in various types of activities.</span></p>