High Tech High CEO Larry Rosenstock describes a vision for education that embraces learning that flows from personal interests, passion for discovery, and a celebration of art, technology, and craftsmanship.
IEEE CIG Special Session: Emotion in Games - Sensing and inducing player experience and affe [...]
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LREC 2010 Workshop on Multimodal Corpora: Advances in Capturing, Coding and Analyzing Multimodality
*** 18 May 2010, Malta ***
This LREC 2010 workshop on multimodal corpora will feature a special
session on databases of motion capture, trackers, inertial sensors,
biometric devices and image processing.
The IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing is a new journal intended to be a cross disciplinary and international archive journal aimed at disseminating results of research on the design of systems that can recognize, interpret, and simulate human emotions and related affective phenomena.
Link to the journal
A few months ago we acquired a new headset with a brain-computer interface called EPOC; a product developed by Emotiv Systems.
The headset allows the gathering of data in three categories of inputs: conscious thoughts, emotions and facial expressions. There is a lot to say about the capabilities of EPOC to measure emotion-related data and about executing specific actions based on previously trained thoughts, but we have been dedicating some effort to test the effectivity in the identification of facial expressions and the results are pretty interesting.
EPOC picks up signals of the facial muscles through EEG sensors. It is in this way that expressions like smiling, laughing or jaw or teeth clenching are detected by the system once it has been trained by a particular person. Detections are generally very fast (10 ms) and the degree of accuracy is quite good.
The possibilities of EPOC for the educational and gaming industry are huge. Further news in our research will be announced in this blog.
For more information visit Emotiv.
Social learning in Facebook: an experience at UOC was presented in the 6th Chair of UNESCO in e-learning
The experience aimed to test an open learning model, understood as a virtual learning environment open to the Internet community, based on the use of open resources and on a methodology focused on the participation and collaboration of users in the construction of knowledge.
The subject of the course ‘Journeys 2.0′ lasted 5 weeks, was launched through Facebook and used a specifically designed open methodology. This methodology of the course is based on the creation of a learning community able to self-manage their learning process. For that a facilitator was needed and also a central activity was established for people to participate and contribute in the community.
The main hypothesis was that students join the course because of personal motivation, interests and desire to learn in a collaborative experience with others. From the point of view of engagement, one of the keywords of the course, results will be presented soon.
