Affective-aware tutoring platform for interactive digital television

• Published in: Multimedia tools and applications Vol. 74; no. 9; pp. 3183 - 3206
• Main Authors: Baldassarri, Sandra, Hupont, Isabelle, Abadía, David, Cerezo, Eva
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Boston Springer US 01.05.2015; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Affect (Psychology); Analysis; Computer Communication Networks; Computer programs; Computer Science; Customization; Data Structures and Information Theory; Digital broadcasting; Distance learning; Dynamical systems; Dynamics; Education; Emotions; Face; Interactive; Interactive learning; Interactive television; Internet; Laboratories; Learning; Multimedia Information Systems; Online instruction; Pattern recognition systems; Pedagogy; Personal computers; Platforms; Software; Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems; Students; Studies; Tutoring; Affective computing; Learning technologies; Facial expressions; Emotions; Interactive digital tv; Facial recognition

Interactive Digital TeleVision (IDTV) is emerging as a potentially important medium for learning at home. This paper presents a novel affective-aware tutoring platform for IDTV which makes use of automatic facial emotion recognition to improve the tutor-student relationship. The system goes further...