The layout of Smart Classroom
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Our Smart Classroom is physically built in a separate room of our lab. Several video cameras, microphones are installed in it to sense human's gesture, motion and utterance. According to UBICOMP's characteristic of invisibility, we deliberately removed all the computers out of sight. Two wall-sized projector displays are mounted on two vertically crossed walls. According to their purposes, they are called "Media Board" and "Student Board" separately. The Media Board is used for lecturer's use as a blackboard, on which prepared electronic courseware and lecturers' annotation are displayed. The Student Board is used for displaying the status and information of remote students, who are part of the class via Internet. |
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| The classroom is divided into two areas, complying with the real world classroom's model. One is the teaching area, where is close to the two boards and usually dominated by lecturer. The other is the audience area, where is the place for local students. Why are both remote students and local students supported in this room? The answer is simple, that we're complying with the philosophy of Natural and Augmented. Natural means we'll obey real-world model of classroom as much as possible to provide lecturer and students the feeling of reality and familiarity, which leads to the existence of local students. Augmented means we'll try to extend beyond the limitation imposed by the incapability of traditional technology, which is the reason for remote student. | |
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