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…
The iTalk2Learn team has had a busy month, filled with meetings and conferences. Since things have been so busy, we thought we’d give you a break-down of the best bits! iTalk2Learn visits the beautiful city of Graz The beautiful Austrian city of Graz, a World Cultural Heritage Site, was the venue last week for some…
iTalk2Learn partners, Birkbeck College (BBK) and the Institute of Education (IOE), went back to a school in Lancaster to run Wizard-of-Oz studies to investigate how speech can be used to tailor feedback. At IOE and BBK, we were particularly interested in how the affective state of a student can be detected through speech and other interactions with the platform,…
The consortium are working upon two aspects of the iTalk2Learn support mechanism: The emotion detector and the emotion reasoner. iTalk2Learn partners, Birkbeck College (BBK) and the Institute of Education (IOE), are continuing to analyse data that was collected from the Wizard-of-Oz studies that took place in March. These studies relate to the work on task-dependent…