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Supporting Students Through Notifications About Importance in Academic Lectures

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Identifying and extracting important information from monologic interaction is a difficult task for humans and modelling this for an intelligent system is a big challenge. In our work, we have previously used models that are grounded in semiotic, linguistic and psychological theories of multi-modal interaction. Here, we concentrate on academic lectures as a specific form of monologic interaction. Our goal is to support students through a system alerting them to important aspects of a lecture. In this paper, we outline the requirements that went into an early implementation of the system. We discuss a rich contextual model and what this entails for modelling requirements and system implementation. We provide an overview of the system and discuss our notion and role of context within the application domain.

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  1. University of Hildesheim, 31141, Hildesheim, Germany

    Jörg Cassens

  2. RWTH Aachen University, 52062, Aachen, Germany

    Rebekah Wegener

  3. Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, 5020, Salzburg, Austria

    Rebekah Wegener

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  1. Hellenic Open University, Patras, Greece

    Achilles Kameas

  2. University of London, Royal Holloway, Egham, UK

    Kostas Stathis

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Cassens, J., Wegener, R. (2018). Supporting Students Through Notifications About Importance in Academic Lectures. In: Kameas, A., Stathis, K. (eds) Ambient Intelligence. AmI 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11249. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03062-9_18

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