Title
Expert Feature-Engineering vs. Deep Neural Networks: Which Is Better for Sensor-Free Affect Detection?
Abstract
The past few years have seen a surge of interest in deep neural networks. The wide application of deep learning in other domains such as image classification has driven considerable recent interest and efforts in applying these methods in educational domains. However, there is still limited research comparing the predictive power of the deep learning approach with the traditional feature engineering approach for common student modeling problems such as sensor-free affect detection. This paper aims to address this gap by presenting a thorough comparison of several deep neural network approaches with a traditional feature engineering approach in the context of affect and behavior modeling. We built detectors of student affective states and behaviors as middle school students learned science in an open-ended learning environment called Betty’s Brain, using both approaches. Overall, we observed a tradeoff where the feature engineering models were better when considering a single optimized threshold (for intervention), whereas the deep learning models were better when taking model confidence fully into account (for discovery with models analyses).
Year
Venue
Field
2018
AIED
Predictive power,Computer science,Feature engineering,Artificial intelligence,Learning environment,Deep learning,Artificial neural network,Contextual image classification,Machine learning,Deep neural networks
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
1
0.37
References 
Authors
17
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yang Jiang145.15
Nigel Bosch222322.50
Ryan S. J. d. Baker31220111.60
Luc Paquette49417.52
Jaclyn Ocumpaugh516518.90
Juliana Ma. Alexandra L. Andres620.73
Allison L. Moore710.37
Gautam Biswas81594233.43