Year

2018

Deliverables

Report paper
Prototype

Expertise Area

Math, Data and Computing
Technology & Realization
Creativity & Aesthetics

Interactive Intelligent Products : BEHAVE

This course project explored and tried to find a solution to the issue of relieving teachers, mostly in primary school, of one of their biggest and most constant pressure points; maintaining a healthy teaching atmosphere in the classroom. More and more teachers suffer from burnouts and a lack of discipline in their classrooms. These are problems that not only cause trouble in the ability to bring proper education to children, but are also directly one of the main causes of the problem of the shortage of teachers, which has become more and more apparent over recent years. These issues are constantly brought forth in political and societal discussions, however, the amount of teachers protesting tells us that it is by far not enough.

My reflection about the project

I wanted to learn how to make a project smart or intelligent. Make use of data that I knew was possible to collect. A way how I could possibly in the future make prototypes with intelligence and learn where to start with it. During the course this was jokingly referred to as black magic, but this is what I wanted to learn. Now that the course has finished, I can say I did learn how to apply this in practice. However I also encountered some struggles which showed me my weaknesses. Eventually I resolved them with the help of my team.
The final project of the course was to create a product that not only is interactive and intelligent but also addressed a social problem. The decision was made to work on an intelligent assistant for teachers to manage a class to be silent, as well as give students feedback on their behavior.
Eventually the sound detection and face recognition were chosen and thanks to the lectures there wasn’t a need to look far to what was needed to do so. The accelerometer and webcam could be used in the way that we wanted it. This was something that came quickly into my mind, which in hindsight helped out with progressing the project quickly.