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AmI-RIA: Real-Time Teacher Assistance Tool for an Ambient Intelligence Classroom

Authors:
Georgios Mathioudakis
Asterios Leonidis
Maria Korozi
George Margetis
Stavroula Ntoa
Margherita Antona
Constantine Stephanidis

Keywords: ambient intelligence, education, smart classroom, teacher assistance, student monitoring

Abstract:
This paper discusses a learner-centric approach towards supporting instructors on improving the learning process in ambient educational environments. The proposed system introduces an intelligent multi-agent infrastructure that monitors unobtrusively the students’ activities and notifies the teacher, in real-time, about potential learning weaknesses and pitfalls that need to be addressed. For that to be achieved several applications have been developed: (i) a real-time classroom activity visualizer, (ii) a behavioral reasoner that aims to identify common behaviors by analyzing classroom statistics records, and (iii) various mini-tools like the classroom attendance record, the schedule manager, etc. Following the system’s description, findings of the preliminary expert-based evaluation are presented and future extensions are proposed.

Pages: 37 to 42

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: February 24, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4367

ISBN: 978-1-61208-253-0

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from February 24, 2013 to March 1, 2013