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Inferring Student Attention with ASQ

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ASQ is a Web application for broadcasting and tracking interactive presentations, which can be used to support active learning pedagogies during lectures, labs and exercise sessions. Students connect their smartphones, tablets or laptops to receive the current slide as it is being explained by the teacher. Slides can include interactive teaching elements (usually questions of different forms). In contrast to other existing platforms, ASQ does not only collect, aggregate and visualize the answers in real-time, it also supports the data analytics in the classroom paradigm by providing the teacher with a real-time analysis of student behaviour during the entire session. One vital aspect of student behaviour is (in)attention and in this paper we discuss how we infer — in real-time — student attention based on log traces ASQ collects.

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    Once more, it should be noted that for these findings some contradictory evidence exists as well.

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This research was partially supported by the Extension School of the Delft University of Technology.

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  1. Faculty of Informatics, University of Lugano, Lugano, Switzerland

    Vasileios Triglianos & Cesare Pautasso

  2. Web Information Systems, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

    Alessandro Bozzon & Claudia Hauff

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  2. The Open University , Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

    Mike Sharples

  3. Jožef Stefan Institute , Ljubljana, Slovenia

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Triglianos, V., Pautasso, C., Bozzon, A., Hauff, C. (2016). Inferring Student Attention with ASQ. In: Verbert, K., Sharples, M., Klobučar, T. (eds) Adaptive and Adaptable Learning. EC-TEL 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9891. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45153-4_23

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