The Year 2 Report on Exploitation Over the past few months, Whizz has been focused on writing deliverable D6.4.2, the Year 2 Report on Exploitation (part of work package 6). The deliverable has raised a number of pertinent questions surrounding the direction of exploitation activities beyond the lifespan of the project. One key challenge in this…
Conventional speech recognition systems are failing As previous research has shown, there are many differences between the speech of an adult and that of a child – both acoustically and linguistically. That is why conventional speech recognition systems modelled on adult data are failing to perform satisfactorily on children’s speech input. Speaking isn’t straightforward Human…
What is being worked on? Testaluna, our partner company, have recently been working to harmonise the human-computer interaction (HCI) within the intelligent learning support platform. This work is directed at developing an intuitive interaction interface for primary mathematics, and to create visual coherence of the various user-facing components of the system. To give you a bit of behind-the-scenes action, iTalk2Learn interviewed…
What have we been working on? At Birkbeck College, we are currently implementing the task-independent support. In collaboration with the IOE, we have analysed the Wizard-of-Oz studies, using these results to inform the design of the task-independent support. What did the results show? Speech recognition from our project partner, Sail, is used to provide feedback based on…
Progress Update Having presented the intervention model that underlies iTalk2Learn during a roundtable discussion at the EARLI SIG 6 & 7 meeting in Rotterdam, the RUB team received some enriching feedback. Many experts in the fields of mathematics education and instructional design attended the roundtable discussion and were extremely positive about iTalk2Learn. To improve things…