Attentiveness Enhancement
Summary:
In general terms, this IpLearn solution tracks a user's concentration level while the user should be focusing on learning. Based on monitoring and analyzing at least one user attribute, the solution can react accordingly to help the user focus.
In addition to providing the conventional benefits of computer aided learning, such as individually-tailored learning materials and the opportunity to learn anywhere anytime, the solution could monitor a user personally and improve the user's attentiveness, much like having an instructor in the room to keep a student on track.
Features include:
- Selecting and presenting appropriate learning materials based on, for example, the user's progress.
- Using one or more non-intrusive sensors to periodically monitor one or more user behaviors related to concentration.
- Monitoring a user's voluntary behavior such as typing speed, scrolling speed, responses to questions, and activity/lack of activity in a window environment.
- Monitoring a user's voluntary facial information, such as facial orientation and expressions like eyelid drooping and frowning.
- Monitoring a user's involuntary behavior, such as pupil size, heart rate, breathing rate, and body temperature.
- Analyzing the monitored results to determine, for example, concentration level and duration of concentration.
- Comparing a user's monitored attribute to a reference, which can be based on the average value of that attribute of other users, or from the user's previous measurements.
- Creating a dynamic reference by monitoring and adjusting a user's attribute continually over time.
- Providing stimulus when a user seems to be losing focus, such as presenting a different video related to the current learning materials, changing the sound volume, asking the user a question unexpectedly, altering the presentation style, and inviting the user to play a game.
