Toward A Better User Experience in Tele-education – Recent Advance in Smart Classroom Project

Smart Classroom is an augmented classroom in which Tele-education functions can be seamlessly integrated with the face-to-face education environment. Some recent achievements of this project is described here. The first is the development of the Virtual Assistant module, which can enhance the speech interaction between the teacher and the system. Following is the integration of a SmartBoard screen and the development of a laser pointer tracking module, which replaces the former Virtual Mouse. Finally, a module called Smart Cameraman is developed. This module can automatically select the video to send to the remote students, from the cameras in the classroom that is most appropriate to the current context of the class