After a month of international conferences and dissemination activities, RUB’s main goal in June was to get ready for conducting the first summative evaluation trial in a German school. Together with the school, we determined that July would be a good time in the fractions curriculum for students to learn with the iTalk2Learn program. July…
What have we been working on? At Birkbeck College, we are currently implementing the task-independent support. In collaboration with the IOE, we have analysed the Wizard-of-Oz studies, using these results to inform the design of the task-independent support. What did the results show? Speech recognition from our project partner, Sail, is used to provide feedback based on…
The iTalk2Learn team has had a busy month, filled with meetings and conferences. Since things have been so busy, we thought we’d give you a break-down of the best bits! iTalk2Learn visits the beautiful city of Graz The beautiful Austrian city of Graz, a World Cultural Heritage Site, was the venue last week for some…
iTalk2Learn partners, Birkbeck College (BBK) and the Institute of Education (IOE), went back to a school in Lancaster to run Wizard-of-Oz studies to investigate how speech can be used to tailor feedback. At IOE and BBK, we were particularly interested in how the affective state of a student can be detected through speech and other interactions with the platform,…