The smart classroom: merging technologies for seamless tele-education

Shi, Yuanchun; Xie, Weidong; Xu, Guangyou; Shi, Runting; Chen, Enyi; Mao, Yanhua; Liu, Fang

doi:10.1109/mprv.2003.1203753

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“…Previous works related to smart classroom technology issues were also reviewed, and models and architectures to address particular technical issues were proposed or discussed in Reference [18][19][20][21][22][23]. Some technology related features important to smart classrooms are discussed in Reference [24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31]. Studies related to solving technical issues or to use technology to improve classroom activities, such as Referenence [32][33][34][35], were also reviewed.…”

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A Context Aware Smart Classroom Architecture for Smart Campuses

Huang

Pao

2019

Applied Sciences

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The Smart campus is a concept of an education institute using technologies, such as information systems, internet of things (IoT), and context-aware computing, to support learning, teaching, and administrative activities. Classrooms are important building blocks of a school campus. Therefore, a feasible architecture for building and running smart classrooms is essential for a smart campus. However, most studies related to the smart classroom are focused on studying or addressing particular technical or educational issues, such as networking, AI applications, lecture quality, and user responses to technology. In this study, an architecture for building and running context-aware smart classrooms is proposed. The proposed architecture consists of three parts including a prototype of a context-aware smart classroom, a model for technology integration, and supporting measures for the operation of smart classrooms in this architecture. The classroom prototype was designed based on our study results and a smart classroom project in Ming Chuan University (MCU). The integration model was a layered model uses Raspberry Pi in the bottom layer of the model to integrate underlying technologies and provide application interfaces to the higher layer applications for the ease of building context-aware smart classroom applications. As a result, application interfaces were implemented using Raspberry Pi based on the proposed technology integration model, and a context-aware energy-saving smart classroom application was implemented based on the proposed classroom prototype and the implemented web application interface. The result shows that, in terms of technology, the proposed architecture is feasible for building context-aware smart classrooms in smart campuses.3 of 34 as follows. The related works are reviewed in the following subsections of this section. The components of the proposed architecture, including a context-aware smart classroom prototype, a technology integration model, and the supporting measures for smart classroom operations, are described in Section 2. The implementations to prove the concepts of the proposed architecture are demonstrated in Section 3. Discussions and conclusions are given in Section 4. Background and Related WorksStudies related to this study are reviewed in this section. Studies related to different topics, including classroom environment, context-aware, energy issues, and Ming Chuan University (MCU) Smart Classroom Project, are reviewed in the following four subsections respectively. Physical Environment and Smart ClassroomsSome research works focus on taking a smart classroom as a tool to measure lecture quality. In [8], authors use sensors to retrieve features, such as noise level, CO 2 level, temperature, humidity, lecturers' voice, and lecturers' motion, in smart classrooms. Collected data are evaluated by various classification algorithms. The result shows that CO 2 level, temperature, humidity, and noise level are the main environmental factors that affect lecture quality. The relations...

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A Context Aware Smart Classroom Architecture for Smart Campuses

Huang

Pao

2019

Applied Sciences

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“…(1) we use the concept of "task" instead of "entity" in a broader view of context that does not appear explicitly in the task, not limited to the context of which depends on static attributes from pre-defined entities, as mentioned in context-aware applications [26]; and (2) we introduce the concept of cloud workflow in order to describe the relationship among context-related concepts and information in workflows on cloud. Furthermore, we propose that the usual approach for cloud workflow lifecycle is to consider explicitly three context-based processes (see Compared with [21], the major characteristics of cloud workflow lifecycle is that after the execute phase (see Fig.…”

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Designing Contextualized Workflows in the Cloud

Fan

Teng

2013

2013 International Conference on Advanced Cloud and Big Data

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Cloud workflow allows automating the workflow procedure through a compilation of known sequences of actions in the cloud environment. There is a notable absence of a holistic view in current cloud workflow systems that, on one hand, to capture the evolving context when designing workflow models; and on the other hand, to help a specific user interact with the system during QoS prediction and dynamic selection of the relevant cloud services. In this paper we firstly review recent works on designing cloud workflows by discussing the opportunities and challenges respectively. We then propose a contextualized approach and research directions to improve the design process of cloud workflows in a user-oriented paradigm. The contextualized methodology could be considered as an alternative attempt to address the sociotechnical issues in designing cloud workflows.

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“…Similarly, the Soft Real-Time Agent Control Architecture [23] focuses on addressing the needs which arise during the real-time management of sensors in real world deployments, which require special treatment by the software architecture. The Smart Classroom Project [45], introduces a multi-agent software architecture which deals with enhancing the educational experience. DimaX [17], deals with failure management, scalability and adaptability in multi-agent systems, by introducing reusable fault-tolerant techniques for service developers.…”

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Agent-based architectural framework enhancing configurability, autonomy and scalability of context-aware pervasive services

Dimakis

Soldatos

Polymenakos

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Auton Agent Multi-Agent Syst

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Multi-agent software architectures have gained in popularity due to their beneficial behavior in designing and implementing sophisticated applications. However, current approaches in implementing such architectures have led to application-specific, non-scalable implementations which limit the reusablity and improvement of the whole architecture. Moreover, these attempts lack features to enhance the user experience, thus slowing the adoption of the resulting services. In this paper we describe a fully-fledged multi-agent architecture covering a large variety of preferred features including capabilities of 'plugging' ubiquitous services, servicing mobile users, interconnecting remote similar architectures and interfacing with advanced software components such as knowledge bases. This framework exploits a wide-range of context-aware components making it essentially context-aware, allowing for the development of ubiquitous context-aware human-centric services, which are the focus of our research. To illustrate the flexibility of this architectural framework, we present four services which were built using this architectural paradigm by different development teams and elaborate on their overall behavior

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The smart classroom: merging technologies for seamless tele-education

Abstract: The Smart Classroom integrates voice-recognition, computer-vision, and other technologies to provide a tele-education experience similar to a real classroom experience.

Cited by 192 publications

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A Context Aware Smart Classroom Architecture for Smart Campuses

A Context Aware Smart Classroom Architecture for Smart Campuses

Designing Contextualized Workflows in the Cloud

Agent-based architectural framework enhancing configurability, autonomy and scalability of context-aware pervasive services

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