Preventing mental and physical fatigue in adolescents' reproductive system development by modernising educational technologies

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to review and synthesize data on educational technologies aimed at facilitating perception, deeper understanding of mechanisms and apply a method of emotional state detection based on facial action coding system (FACS). The review demonstrates the demand and attractiveness for investment of modernized visualization, computer simulation and virtual immersion techniques in understanding complex fundamental mechanisms of living systems at different levels of organization. The described conceptual solutions have a great potential to facilitate, increase the productivity of the educational process and prevent mental and physical fatigue of schoolchildren, especially in the period of their puberty against the background of increased risk of formation of stressogenic suppression of neuroendocrine mechanisms and reproductive failure in the future mature organism. In the practical part, testing of virtual immersion in conditionally neutral, safe and threatening environments on adolescent volunteers after the end of training sessions showed that viewing threatening video content is accompanied by an increase in mimic movements in the area of localization of musculus corrugator supercilii on the background of minimization of movements in the area of musculus zygomaticus major and minor. We assume that immersive virtual reality technologies can be successfully applied to solve various tasks related to the modernization of science education. Qualitative and quantitative assessment of the expression of emotions in schoolchildren can be successfully used to identify the degree of purposefulness, concentration, the presence of motivation and satisfaction or, conversely, dissatisfaction and disgust, as well as for early detection of manifestations of mental or physical fatigue.