In 2010, Gordon Matthew attained a BA-degree in Computational Linguistics at the North-West University’s (NWU’s) Potchefstroom Campus. In 2013, he attained a MA-degree in Language and Literary Studies at the NWU’s Vaal Triangle Campus, the thesis topic focusing on the development of an Afrikaans Named Entity Recogniser. Gordon is part of the UPSET Focus area, and words specifically on Audio-Visual translation and Eye Tracking. Gordon completed his PhD on different ways to determine and measure cognitive load while a person reads subtitles. He also serves on the executive committee of Eye Tracking South Africa (ETSA) and is also part of the Planning Committee in charge of organising the ETSA 2015 Conference that will be held from the 7th – 9th of October 2015, on the NWU’s Vaal Triangle Campus.

PUBLICTIONS:

Blignaut, A.S. and Matthew, G., 2017, October. Part II: Survive with Vuvu on the Vaal: Electroencephalography Results of a Gameplay Experience Evaluation of a Mobile Serious Game for Statistics Education. In Proceedings of the 16th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning (p. 18). ACM.

Blignaut, S., Matthew, G. & Botha Ravyse, C. (2016). Students’ Learning Experiences of a Serious Food Service Management Game through the Lens of Eyetracking and Electroencephalography. In Proceedings of EdMedia 2016--World Conference on Educational Media and Technology (pp. 365-374). Vancouver, BC, Canada: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE).

Blignaut, A.S., Matthew, G. and Fitchat, L., 2016. Survive with the VUVU on the Vaal: Eyetracking Findings of a User Interface Evaluation of a Mobile Serious Game for Statistics Education. Mobile Learning Futures–Sustaining Quality Research and Practice in Mobile Learning, p.38.