{"id":68,"date":"2007-01-08T12:43:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-08T12:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/01\/08\/emotion-aware-teaching-software-tracks-students\/"},"modified":"2007-01-08T16:36:57","modified_gmt":"2007-01-08T16:36:57","slug":"emotion-aware-teaching-software-tracks-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/01\/08\/emotion-aware-teaching-software-tracks-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Emotion-aware teaching software tracks students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Came across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientisttech.com\/article\/dn10894-emotionaware-teaching-software-tracks-student-attention.html\">this interesting little article<\/a> over at NewScientist.com. The basic idea is that students wear rings fitted with sensors that monitor heart rate, blood pressure and changes in electrical resistance caused by perspiration, which it then transmits to a computer that assesses the wearer&#8217;s emotional state &#8211; and judges whether they are interested and keeping up or bored and struggling.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not too sure about this, whilst there is commonality in terms of the biological responses the body generates in all of us the extent to which these manifest vary from individual to individual so I&#8217;m not sure how accurate the system is going to be in widespread use. Reciprocally if it was accurate then what would the social implications be of a technology that could assess our emotional state and take <em>remedial<\/em> action?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Came across this interesting little article over at NewScientist.com. The basic idea is that students wear rings fitted with sensors that monitor heart rate, blood pressure and changes in electrical resistance caused by perspiration, which it then transmits to a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/01\/08\/emotion-aware-teaching-software-tracks-students\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,2],"tags":[396,382],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-personal","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}