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Presentation Trainer: Polishing Your Communication Skills

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Design for Teaching and Learning in a Networked World (EC-TEL 2015)

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The paper presents the evolution of Presentation Trainer, a prototypical sensor-based toolkit that works as a public speaking instructor. It tracks the learner’s body posture, movements and voice in order to provide instructional feedback on nonverbal communication skills. Based on our design-based research the current version of the Presentation Trainer is able to provide the learner with the type of feedback that it considers to be appropriate according to the learner’s performance; it includes haptic feedback helping to reduce the learner’s cognitive load.

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    Processing: http://processing.org. [Accessed 13 March 2015].

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    http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/kinectforwindows/. [Accessed 13 March 2015].

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Acknowledgement

The underlying research project is partly funded by the METALOGUE project. METALOGUE is a Seventh Framework Programme collaborative project funded by the European Commission, grant agreement number: 611073 (http://www.metalogue.eu).

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  1. Welten Institute, Open University of the Netherlands, Heerlen, The Netherlands

    Jan Schneider, Dirk Börner, Peter van Rosmalen & Marcus Specht

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  1. University of Bath Spa, Bath, UK

    Gráinne Conole

  2. Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Tomaž Klobučar

  3. Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

    Christoph Rensing

  4. Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

    Johannes Konert

  5. IAE Lyon, Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, Lyon, France

    Elise Lavoué

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Schneider, J., Börner, D., van Rosmalen, P., Specht, M. (2015). Presentation Trainer: Polishing Your Communication Skills. In: Conole, G., Klobučar, T., Rensing, C., Konert, J., Lavoué, E. (eds) Design for Teaching and Learning in a Networked World. EC-TEL 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9307. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24258-3_52

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