Using Support Vector Machines to Classify Student Attentiveness for The Development of Personalized Learning Systems

Authors

  • B Kumar Reddy  PG Schplar, Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India
  • Anjan Babu G  Professor, Department of Computer Science, Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India

Keywords:

There have been numerous examinations in which specialists have endeavored to group understudy mindfulness. A large number of these methodologies relied upon a subjective investigation and lacked any quantitative examination. Thusly, this work is centered around crossing over any barrier among subjective and quantitative ways to deal with arrange understudy mindfulness. Subsequently, this examination applies AI calculations (K-means and SVM) to consequently group understudies as mindful or absentminded utilizing information from a customer RGB-D sensor. Consequences of this exploration can be utilized to improve showing techniques for educators at all levels and can help teachers in actualizing personalized learning systems, which is a National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenge. This exploration applies AI calculations to an instructive setting. Information from these calculations can be utilized by teachers to give significant feedback on the adequacy of their instructional procedures and teaching methods. Teachers can utilize this feedback to improve their instructional methodologies; and understudies will profit by accomplishing improved learning and subject authority. At last, this will bring about the understudies' expanded capacity to accomplish work in their separate territories. Extensively, this work can help advance endeavors in numerous zones of training and guidance. It is normal that improving instructional systems and actualizing personalized learning will help make increasingly skilled, competent, and arranged people accessible for the future workforce.

Abstract

There have been numerous examinations in which specialists have endeavored to group understudy mindfulness. A large number of these methodologies relied upon a subjective investigation and lacked any quantitative examination. Thusly, this work is centered around crossing over any barrier among subjective and quantitative ways to deal with arrange understudy mindfulness. Subsequently, this examination applies AI calculations (K-means and SVM) to consequently group understudies as mindful or absentminded utilizing information from a customer RGB-D sensor. Consequences of this exploration can be utilized to improve showing techniques for educators at all levels and can help teachers in actualizing personalized learning systems, which is a National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenge. This exploration applies AI calculations to an instructive setting. Information from these calculations can be utilized by teachers to give significant feedback on the adequacy of their instructional procedures and teaching methods. Teachers can utilize this feedback to improve their instructional methodologies; and understudies will profit by accomplishing improved learning and subject authority. At last, this will bring about the understudies' expanded capacity to accomplish work in their separate territories. Extensively, this work can help advance endeavors in numerous zones of training and guidance. It is normal that improving instructional systems and actualizing personalized learning will help make increasingly skilled, competent, and arranged people accessible for the future workforce.

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2020-07-20

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B Kumar Reddy, Anjan Babu G, " Using Support Vector Machines to Classify Student Attentiveness for The Development of Personalized Learning Systems" International Journal of Scientific Research in Computer Science, Engineering and Information Technology(IJSRCSEIT), ISSN : 2456-3307, Volume 4, Issue 10, pp.09-14, July-2020.