Focus Plus: Detect Learner's Distraction by Web Camera in Distance Teaching
This addresses the challenge of distraction for students and teachers in distance learning, but it appears incremental as it applies existing AI technology to a specific educational context.
The paper tackles the problem of student distraction in distance teaching by proposing Focus+, a system that uses AI and web cameras to detect learners' status, aiming to help teachers monitor students and students regulate their learning.
Distance teaching has become popular these years because of the COVID-19 epidemic. However, both students and teachers face several challenges in distance teaching, like being easy to distract. We proposed Focus+, a system designed to detect learners' status with the latest AI technology from their web camera to solve such challenges. By doing so, teachers can know students' status, and students can regulate their learning experience. In this research, we will discuss the expected model's design for training and evaluating the AI detection model of Focus+.