As a reading comprehension strategy, mind mapping has a positive influence on the development of students’ reading ability. However, how mind mapping affects reading ability has not been well documented. In this study, we used eye tracking sensors to explore mind mapping’s effects on reading ability. The participants were foreign language learning university students in Dalian city, China. One group received foreign language reading teaching integrated with mind mapping training (experimental group), and the other group received regular foreign language reading teaching (control group). We analyzed eye movement indicators, including fixation-related indicators (number of fixations, fixation frequency, and mean fixation duration), regression count, saccade amplitude, and pupil diameter. In addition, the analysis of heat maps and fixation trajectory maps, which are specific tool for visualization of eye movement data and intuitive analysis of reading process, were explained. The results show that the number of fixations, fixation frequency, mean fixation duration, and regression count in the experimental group were all lower than in the control group, and the pupil diameter was larger than in the control group. The heat map and fixation trajectory map show convergence, mostly focusing on the position of keywords and key sentences, with relatively large saccade amplitude and more information obtained by one gaze. Moreover, they had a higher skipping reading rate, which enhanced reading speed to obtain information accurately and quickly. These empirical results indicate that mind mapping training was an effective method for improving students’ reading ability.

This paper investigated foreign language learning efficiency in four different illumination environments (in different illuminance and color temperatures), focusing on the influence of the illumination environment on foreign language learners’ sentimental status, by means of foreign language skills testing in mind-map, objective evaluation of physiological reaction, and subjective evaluation of psychological reaction. It was shown that in different illumination environments, the language skills of foreign language learners were different, and their psychological and physiological reactions varied, which influenced the efficiency of foreign language learning. The results indicated that the ideal learning space was in high illuminance and low color temperature, which increased the stimulation in foreign language learners; promoted the formation of optimistic sentiment; and enhanced their interest in, and the quality and efficiency of, foreign language learning.

With the development of internet technology, communication technology and artificial intelligence (AI), the versatile and convenient human-machine dialogue and interaction system has gradually penetrated into the education field and become a new type of teaching method. Focusing on the subject of the application of human-machine dialogue system in foreign language teaching at universities, this paper elaborated on how to apply the human-machine dialogue system in foreign language teaching, what effect can be achieved, and what application strategy can be adopted in human-machine dialogue interactive teaching. Combined with the problems existing in daily teaching, this paper presented suggestions for applying the human-machine dialogue system, which is expected to improve the effects of foreign language teaching.

In the context of AI technology, it is necessary to reform the education by adopting information technology and intelligent teaching tools. The hybrid teaching and learning based on AI technology integrates online teaching with offline classroom teaching, by taking advantage of both informatic teaching and traditional teaching. This study takes an example of Japanese translation course of junior students majoring in Japanese language in higher education institutions, and conducts the AI-based Japanese translation hybrid teaching practice. The results indicate that the AI-based hybrid teaching mode may motivate students’ activity and self-discipline in learning, and increase their capability and motif of autonomous learning.

AI thinking visualization tool can express the knowledge in the brain in a graphical way. It can form an external manifestation of knowledge directly affecting the human senses, which is of great help for learners to improve their understanding, memory and thinking skills. In this research, we studied the mind mapping training through AI thinking visualization tool in the reading teaching of foreign language courses. The results indicated that via the independent establishment of a foreign language reading material framework based on AI thinking visualization tool, students’ thinking skills and reading ability have been enhanced, learning enthusiasm has been improved, and good teaching results have been achieved.

Because of the increase in green lighting in recent years, scholars have been trying to find more comfortable lighting methods in various fields to meet people’s lighting needs. In previous studies, we found that most museum lighting was conducted in the form of subjective questionnaires, but in this study, we tried to introduce a new way to explore the impact of the lighting environment on comfort, namely eye tracking technology. This paper aims to explore the influences when viewing paintings in cold, warm, and middle tones under illumination of 50 lx, 150 lx, and 300 lx, respectively, on the visual comfort of viewers, and the use visual fatigue as the evaluation index to find the most appropriate illumination value for different painting systems in the art museum. By collecting eye movement data under different illuminance and color combination of different paintings and subjective evaluation from the subjects, this paper studies the impact of different illuminances and colors on the subjects’ visual fatigue. By considering the illumination intensity of the light environment and the tone of the painting, it can be found that the warm tone painting was more suitable for 150 lx, the cold tone painting was more suitable for 50 lx, and the middle tone painting was more suitable for 300 lx.