Approaches to the use of sensor data to improve classroom experience

Author

Sauer, Christian Severin ; Sakur, Tushar ; Oussena, Samia ; Roth-Berghofer, Thomas

Author_Institution

Univ. of West London, London, UK

fYear

2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

9

Abstract

Equipping classrooms with inexpensive sensors can provide students and teachers with the opportunity to interact with the classroom in a smart way. In this paper an approach to acquiring contextual data from a classroom environment, using inexpensive sensors, is presented. We present our approach to formalising the usage data. Further we demonstrate how the data was used to model specific room usage situation as cases in a Case-based reasoning (CBR) system. The room usage data was than integrated in a room recommendations system, reasoning on the formalised usage data. We also detail on our on-going work to integrating the systems presented in this paper into our Smart University vision.

Keywords

case-based reasoning; computer aided instruction; data acquisition; intelligent sensors; recommender systems; CBR system; case-based reasoning system; classroom environment; contextual data acquisition; inexpensive sensors; room recommendations system; smart university vision; specific room usage situation; usage data; Cognition; Computers; Data models; Educational institutions; Recommender systems; Resource management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

eChallenges e-2014, 2014 Conference

Print_ISBN

978-1-9058-2445-8

Type

conf

Filename

7058186