Distance education system with visualized atmosphere information based on fuzzy inference

A distance education system is designed based on fuzzy inference, where visualized atmosphere information is shared by all learners in a virtual classroom. It provides high aspirations, low isolated feeling, low stress, and high affinity to learners, and offers learner´s psychological information, individual difference information, and hints of system improvement to system manager. The effect of visualized atmosphere information to learner´s psychological states is confirmed by T score Anger-Hostility (A-H) of POMS test for 15 graduate students using CAI contents, and comparison experiment with traditional distance education in terms of paired t-test obtains p-value 0.011 of A-H. The proposal of atmosphere information presentation of virtual classroom provides a first step of establishing over face-to-face distance education system.