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Students’ anxiety recognition may provide significant support for self-regulation and teaching and coaching quality. From physiology it is known that high anxiety usually results in increasing skin conductivity to electrical current. Furthermore, people under stressful conditions usually show increased heart-rate values. The purpose of this chapter is to present a prototype device that measures the anxiety level of a person by collecting bio-signals. The device has been evaluated by persons engaged in learning activities in order to investigate whether and how it could augment the educational process. This work concludes that student’s anxiety recognition and regulation seems to be an important factor in implementing personalized learning activities.
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Apostolidis, H., Stylianidis, P., Tsiatsos, T. (2014). Anxiety Awareness in Education: A Prototype Biofeedback Device. In: Karagiannidis, C., Politis, P., Karasavvidis, I. (eds) Research on e-Learning and ICT in Education. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6501-0_18
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