Tag: Education

Speech recognition trial uses DS consoles to help children with hearing ...
Speech recognition trial uses DS consoles to help children with hearingdifficulties Nintendo is helping to implement the use of speech recognition software in Japanese schools, in partnership with telecom company NTT. As part a project currently being trialed, speech can be captured from a classroom teacher, and relayed as text on a students DS handheld console. Nintendos handheld console is no stranger to classrooms in Japan, with it already being used in educational settings for a variety of purposes. You can follow him on Twitter @midnightambler VentureBeat's Games channel covers stories about the evolving video game industry, from disruptive social game companies such as Zynga and CrowdStar, to the established giants such as Electronic Arts, Activision Blizzard, Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo....... (more)

New Computers Respond To Emotions, Boredom
Emotion-sensing computer software that models and responds to students cognitive and emotional states including frustration and boredom has been developed by University of Notre Dame Assistant Professor of Psychology Sidney DMello and colleagues from the University of Memphis and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. AutoTutor and Affective AutoTutor can gauge the students level of knowledge by asking probing questions, analyzing the students responses to those questions; and even sensing a students frustration or boredom through facial expression and body posture and dynamically changing its strategies to help the student conquer those negative emotions. AutoTutor is an Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS) that helps students learn complex technical content in Newtonian physics, computer literacy, and critical thinking by holding a conversation in natural language; using its student model to dynamically tailor the interaction to individual students; (more)

Tempering the Rise of the Machines
But to make this revolution work for students, academic leaders at those traditional institutions will need to broker a peace between artificially intelligent teaching programs and their human counterparts, according to a new report written by the former presidents of two prominent traditional universities on behalf of the nonprofit Ithaka S+R. Technology designed to usher students through new material is thought likely to play a significant role in the future of higher education, although critics have worried that relying too heavily on such technology could harm learning. The hope is that these systems will not only help teach students new concepts but also will aid their human instructors by collecting data on how students interact with those ideas and help identify, on a student-by-student basis, what sort of human intervention might be helpful...... (more)

Speaking 'robots' can teach English 24-hours a day
2011 YouTube, LLC A Japanese company has developed the world's first artificial intelligence "chat robots" to teach English. SpeakGlobal's online 'robots' - which appear as male or female manga-style characters - look and make gestures that are identical to that of a human, speak aloud and can hold an interactive conversation with the student. Developed primarily for the domestic market for people who want to learn to speak English, the technology can be adapted for any language around the world - although humans in the teaching profession may be less than delighted at the prospect. Access to one of the teacher robots starts at $15 per month, instead of the more usual fee of $300 a month for time with a human teacher at a private school. (more)

AI makes the grade
The students answered questions using SAGrader, an online service developed by Idea Works of Columbia, Missouri. SAGrader parsed their answers, which could be several paragraphs long, using artificial intelligence techniques designed to extract meaning from text. " Andrew Klobucar made similar observations after watching around 30 of his students at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark use a tool called e-rater. Developed by ETS in Princeton, New Jersey, the system analyses essays and provides feedback on everything from grammar and spelling to the use of paragraphs. (more)

Aldebaran Robotics announces Nao Next Gen humanoid robot (video)
Aldebaran Robotics' Nao robot has already received a few upgrades from both the company itself and other developers, but it now has a proper successor. Aldebaran took the wraps off its new and improved Nao Next Gen robot today, touting features like a 1.6GHz Atom processor and dual HD cameras that promise to allow for better face and object recognition even in poor lighting conditions. Check out the gallery below and the video after the break for a closer look.Nao Next Gen Show full PR text NAO Next Gen: Aldebaran Robotics launches a new generation of its humanoid robot Aldebaran Robotics, the world leader in humanoid robotics, has released its latest version of the NAO robot - NAO Next Gen. I created Aldebaran Robotics in 2005 with this aim: to contribute to humankinds well-being," states Bruno Maisonnier, Founder and Chairman of Aldebaran Robotics. (more)

CBR Noir.
CBR Noir is a high-level, tongue-in-cheek introduction to Case-Based Reasoning (CBR). It is presented in the style of a classic Film Noir murder mystery. For the connoisseur, the dialogue incorporates the names of many early CBR systems; see if you can count them all before the credits roll. July 14, 2008. (more)

CSE Colloquia - 2005: Intelligent Tutoring Systems - Improving Student Modeling.
Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) are computer-based instructional tools that rely on artificial intelligence techniques to generate individualized interactions tailored to a student's learning needs. Cristina Conati [University of British Columbia] discusses how the scope and effectiveness of ITS can be increased by extending the range of features captured in a student model to include domain independent, meta-cognitive skills and affective states. October 19, 2004. (more)

CSE Colloquia - 2007: Broadening Computer and Robotics Education and Participation for Women.
"Women and other underrepresented groups represent a vast amount of untapped human resource potential needed to fuel both industry and academic research needs. Professor Andrew Williams [Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia] describes a cohesive, integrated approach to increase the participation and education of women and African Americans using innovative robotics and computer curriculum and competitions. Williams provides several examples, including how the all-women Spelman College's SpelBots RoboCup Four-Legged robot soccer team, and the joint Spelman and Carnegie Mellon University NSF-sponsored project, C.A.R.E. [Computer and Robotics Education for African American Students], have inspired young girls to pursue education and research in robotics and artificial intelligence." November 14, 2006. (more)

Computer Chronicles: Women in Computing (1985).
"Meet the top women in a field that has traditionally been dominated by men." Hosts Stewart Cheifet and Gary Kildall interview guests: Dr. Thelma Estrin, Professor of Computer Science at UCLA, and her daughter Judy Estrin, Co-Founder and Executive V.P of Bridge Communications; Kay Gilliland, Director of EQUALS at U.C. Berkeley, and Elizabeth Scott, Co-Founder of Rhiannon Software; Adele Goldberg, Xerox PARC and President of ACM; Jan Lewis, President of the Palo Alto Research Group. The show also includes reports about computers in the classroom and The Women's Computer Literacy Project, a commentary by Paul Schindler, the Random Access news report and Paul Schindler's review of the "da Vinci" software program. 1985. (more)

Computers in Education.
Stewart Cheifet is joined by guest co-host Herb Lechner [SRI International] for this 1984 broadcast about computers in education with in-studio guests: Professor Patrick Suppes [Stanford University], Nancy Palmer [ Computer Education Coordinator, Palo Alto School District], and Glenn Kleiman [Teaching Tools Microcomputer Services], author of 'Brave New Schools'. . 1984. (more)

Listen.
Demo of Project Listen for helping kids with reading. Computer listens to kids reading sentences of a story and gives feedback. 1994. (more)

Project Listen Collection.
Collection of Videos from Project Listen, the reading tutor developed by Jack Mostow at CMU. Last update 2006. (more)

Smart Classroom.
Smart Classroom is an exciting and visionary technology designed to improve the quality of teaching and learning experiences at colleges and universities. This video has been created as part of the course work for "Creative Design for Software Systems" at the University of Missouri - Kansas City. July 14, 2008. (more)