Implementation of the task-independent support

  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…

Wizard-of-Oz studies for feedback generation

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,…

Emotional dectection and reasoning for student support

The consortium are working upon two aspects of the iTalk2Learn support mechanism: The emotion detector and the emotion reasoner. iTalk2Learn partners, Birkbeck College (BBK) and the Institute of Education (IOE), are continuing to analyse data that was collected from the Wizard-of-Oz studies that took place in March. These studies relate to the work on task-dependent…