Facial and Speech Recognition Emotion in Distance Education System

Author

Luo, Qi ; Tan, Honghua

Author_Institution

Wuhan Inst. of Technol., Wuhan

fYear

2007

fDate

11-13 Oct. 2007

Firstpage

483

Lastpage

486

Abstract

Modern distance education is an important direction of the international education development since 1980s. It is a primary approach to realize information education and education internationalization, though modern distance education arouses a profound revolution in educational model and educational conception. Aiming at emotion deficiency in present distance education system, a lot of negative effects were analyzed and corresponding countermeasures were proposed. Based on it, facial emotion recognition and speech emotion recognition technologies are applied in Web based education system, the emotion state is judged and understood. The corresponding emotion encouragement and compensation are provided according to the specific emotion state. In future, teaching strategies and learning behaviors are adjusted according to specific emotion state.

Keywords

Internet; distance learning; emotion recognition; face recognition; speech recognition; Web based education system; distance education system; educational conception; facial emotion recognition; speech emotion recognition; Displays; Distance learning; Educational technology; Electronic learning; Emotion recognition; Hidden Markov models; Pervasive computing; Psychology; Speech recognition; Systems engineering education;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Pervasive Computing, 2007. IPC. The 2007 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Jeju City

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3006-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IPC.2007.55

Filename

4438481