Title
Using Depth Cameras to Detect Patterns in Oral Presentations: A Case Study Comparing Two Generations of Computer Engineering Students.
Abstract
Speaking and presenting in public are critical skills for academic and professional development. These skills are demanded across society, and their development and evaluation are a challenge faced by higher education institutions. There are some challenges to evaluate objectively, as well as to generate valuable information to professors and appropriate feedback to students. In this paper, in order to understand and detect patterns in oral student presentations, we collected data from 222 Computer Engineering (CE) fresh students at three different times, over two different years (2017 and 2018). For each presentation, using a developed system and Microsoft Kinect, we have detected 12 features related to corporal postures and oral speaking. These features were used as input for the clustering and statistical analysis that allowed for identifying three different clusters in the presentations of both years, with stronger patterns in the presentations of the year 2017. A Wilcoxon rank-sum test allowed us to evaluate the evolution of the presentations attributes over each year and pointed out a convergence in terms of the reduction of the number of features statistically different between presentations given at the same course time. The results can further help to give students automatic feedback in terms of their postures and speech throughout the presentations and may serve as baseline information for future comparisons with presentations from students coming from different undergraduate courses.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.3390/s19163493
SENSORS
Keywords
Field
DocType
MS Kinect,multimodal learning analytics,oral presentations,k-means,educational data mining
Course time,Professional development,Wilcoxon signed-rank test,Engineering,Cluster analysis,Computer engineering,Educational data mining,Higher education,Multimodal learning analytics,Statistical analysis
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
19
16
1424-8220
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Felipe Roque100.34
Cristian Cechinel213.07
Tiago O Weber300.34
Robson Lemos400.34
Rodolfo Villarroel514517.44
Diego Miranda600.34
Roberto Munoz711.03