Sync class

Author

Fujii, Katsuya and Marian, Plivelic and Clark, Dav and Okamoto, Yoshi and Rekimoto, Jun

Abstract

The engagement of students in a classroom is an important factor in education. Teachers are not only expected to possess strong teaching skills but also be simultaneously attentive to their students. Researchers have found that the most effective teaching happens when students in the room are in sync with one another.[1] However, assessing the classroom environment is not always easy for teachers especially when they teach multiple students at a time. The number of students per classroom can vary from a handful of student to over 50, this in turn can cause difficulty for teachers to provide an equal amount of attention per student, or even to be clearly attentive to the entire class environment. In this paper, we introduce an intelligent support system called