Titulo Estágio
Virtual Choreographies Extraction for Authoring Immersive Education & Training Platforms
Local do Estágio
Delegação Regional de Coimbra da Universidade Aberta (alternative: INESC TEC, Porto)
Enquadramento
Are you going to be the herald of the next big breakthrough in the research of immersive learning analytics?
As far as learning and certification platforms are concerned, at INESC TEC we are developing a novel approach called e-Sim, which provides teachers with a set of resources for monitoring and following the training process of students, using a dashboard that shows the status of students, grouping them by learning processes.
However, when new virtual choreographies emerge, generated by new student behaviors, such data cannot currently be monitored.
What we intend to propose in this research project is the detection of unknown behavioral patterns by analyzing the data generated by the existing teaching platforms in the e-Sim project.
INESC TEC labs has been attacking this problem and created the Virtual Choreographies concept. Instead of defining actions as coordinates or specific geometric surfaces or assets, we define them as human-meaningful concepts, at a higher semantic level. This can be done in two ways: by specifying them in a Twine-like storyboarding tool or by filtering user actions through an expert system or ontology, registering them as “Submitted assignment” instead of something like “opened submissions page, accessed submission status, uploaded files, accessed submission status, updated submission". We demonstrated this for 3-D environments in the VESTAS wind turbine training system, recently presented in the IEEE VR conference and in a major international journal, IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies.
This proposal seeks you to further these efforts, amidst an active and enthusiastic research team, involving senior researchers across continents and countries. You can choose your preferred angle… join us!
Objetivo
Create and develop a methodology that allows the identification and extraction of virtual choreographies that are meaningful for both human analysis (e.g., professors, tutors) and artificial intelligences (e.g. intelligent tutors). These choreographies are identified by analyzing data generated by the teaching platforms, using AI and pattern recognition tools.
Plano de Trabalhos - Semestre 1
1. Acquaintance with the context and the problem.
2. Literature review.
3. Eliciting requirement and data context analysis.
4. Experimenting potential technologies and methods for the problem.
5. Defining the methodology and planning the approach.
Plano de Trabalhos - Semestre 2
1. Design and specify a first approach to choreography identification.
2. Implementation of the approach.
3. Evaluation of the approach.
4. Revising the approach (analysis and implementation)
5. Evaluation of the revised approach.
6. Writing the final report.
Condições
Registration as master student with the Associated Laboratory, INESC TEC.
Acess to INESC TEC resources: Gitlab, scientific data repository, Nextcloud drive, research Moodle etc.
Access to anonymized data from earlir efforts.
Observações
INESC TEC is a private non-profit research institution, dedicated to scientific research and technological development, technology transfer, advanced consulting and training, and pre-incubation of new technology-based companies. Present in six sites in the cities of Porto, Braga and Vila Real, with a Nucleus at Universidade Aberta (Lisbon, Coimbra, Porto), INESC TEC incorporates 13 R&D Centres. This proposal is hosted at the HUMANISE centre, devoted to Human-Centered Technology. At HUMANISE, we are particularly well positioned to address complex and difficult engineering problems facing industry, as we have the expertise to analyze, design, mine and implement large information systems ‑ using best practices for designing, developing, and testing software engineering, and to provide the visual and user interaction components such a solution may require.
Furthermore, at HUMANISE we are also strongly committed to training young researchers and professionals. Presently, our researchers come from the University of Porto, Polytechnic of Porto, University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Universidade Aberta and University of Minho.
Our centre addresses five principal areas of research: Computer Graphics and Virtual Environments, Information Management and Information Systems, Software Engineering, Accessibility and Assistive Technologies and Special Purpose Computing Systems/Embedded Systems.
Orientador
Leonel Morgado
leonel.morgado@uab.pt 📩