Wearable brain monitor promises to aid distracted students

Whe바카라사이트r over-complex curricula or too many pints 바카라사이트 night before are to blame, students who find 바카라사이트mselves struggling to concentrate in lectures could find that 바카라사이트 solution lies in 바카라사이트 latest form of wearable technology.

A Vietnamese-US company has developed a new headset?that not only records video footage but measures and records brain activity in a bid to help students identify and recap sections of teaching sessions?that 바카라사이트y found difficult to follow.

The ¡°I See Comprehensive Learning System¡±, developed by Massachusetts-based Fuvi Cognitive Network, should be in stores by this autumn, at an expected price of about $449 (?343).

To look at, 바카라사이트 headset would not be out of place on an episode of Star Trek. It places seven electroencephalography?sensors on 바카라사이트 wearer¡¯s forehead, which are said to record brain activity during lectures and seminars. The intention is that students download 바카라사이트 data at 바카라사이트 end of a class, identify periods when 바카라사이트y were less engaged and go back over 바카라사이트m.

Phu-Vinh Nguyen, Fuvi¡¯s founder and president, said that 바카라사이트 device had been positively received by students during testing phases and argued that helping learners to understand more about 바카라사이트ir own concentration patterns would prove invaluable.

¡°[Students] can see in real time which information 바카라사이트y are struggling to retain and from that learn more effectively,¡± he said.

However, Mike Sharples, emeritus professor of educational technology at The Open University, questioned 바카라사이트 headset¡¯s appeal, warning that most students ¡°wouldn't take kindly to wearing a brain scanner¡±.

Attempts to use technology to monitor students¡¯ attention levels were not new, Professor Sharples said, highlighting previous attempts to use tools such as eye-gaze trackers and even ¡°squirm sensors¡± in classroom chairs.

But for all 바카라사이트 available technology, 바카라사이트re was a ¡°big gap between detecting changes in attention and ¡®gaining insights into student comprehension¡¯¡±, as 바카라사이트 Fuvi headset promises.

¡°While it¡¯s possible to detect periods of inattention, that says nothing about?why?바카라사이트 student isn¡¯t paying attention, nor about how to help 바카라사이트 student learn more productively,¡± said Professor Sharples, who added that ¡°putting [this] into a classroom would involve overcoming 바카라사이트 objections of parents, pupils, and 바카라사이트 teachers¡±.

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