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Identifier

000376396

Title

AMI-RIA: Real-Time Teacher Assistance Tools for an Ambient Intelligence Classroom

Alternative Title

AMI-RIA : Πραγματικού χρόνου εργαλεία υποστήριξης του καθηγητή σε μία σχολική τάξη διάχυτης νοημοσύνης

Author

Μαθιουδάκης, Γεώργιος Βασίλειος

Thesis advisor

Στεφανίδης, Κωνσταντίνος

Abstract

Ambient Intelligence (AMI) represents a vision of the future where people are surrounded by technological means that are sensitive and responsive to their behaviors. The promising potentials of AMI in education led to the introduction of the notion Intelligent Classroom. An Intelligent Classroom is an environment where conventional classroom activities are enhanced with the use of pervasive and mobile computing, artificial intelligence and multimedia. However, the majority of current research approaches towards the Intelligent Classroom address issues focusing on the learner's perspective, with much less attention so far to the role of the instructor. The AMI-RIA system proposed in this thesis aims to support teachers during the educational process in the classroom, by providing facilities for observing in real time the students' activities and mechanisms for identifying possible related problems and issues which need to be addressed at an individual or classroom level. This information is used to make the teacher aware about the students' status, therefore offering the possibility to intervene, providing help or adapting the teaching process. In particular, the developed system provides an infrastructure of intelligent agents for monitoring the students in an unobtrusive way and exploits the advantages of ontologies to model their activities and apply reasoning on them. An application for the teacher has been developed to present a real-time live view of the classroom and provide statistics and graphs about the students' progress and performance. Finally, a set of tools are incorporated in the system, enhancing the typical procedures that can be found in conventional classrooms.

Language

English

Subject

Ambient Intelligence

Smart Classroom

Student Monitoring

Teacher Assistance

Έξυπνη τάξη

Διάχυτη νοημοσύνη

Παρακολούθηση του μαθητή

Υποστήριξη του καθηγητή

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