Rooms Take Note: Room Takes Notes!

Intelligent Environments

Volume

Papers from the 1998 AAAI Spring Symposium

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Students in university lectures try to capture the classroom experience by taking notes. In many classes, this is a tedious process and distracts the student from concentrating on the lecture. In this paper, we present a classroom that takes media-enhanced notes on behalf of the students thereby allowing them to give more attention to understanding the material rather than trying to record it. We describe the requirements of a note-taking classroom and discuss how we met them using simple techniques and small amounts of human intervention.