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Speaking of phones having many sensors...
There have been quite a few in-home monitoring projects that are about video. I want to go multi-modal. I know the shower's on because I can hear it... (so I don't have to put a privacy-invading camera in the bathroom). We're proposing a PhD topic around this general problem, but we can bite of small parts as thesis and masters topics.
There have been quite a few in-home monitoring projects that are about video. I want to go multi-modal. I know the shower's on because I can hear it... (so I don't have to put a privacy-invading camera in the bathroom). We're proposing a PhD topic around the general problem of multi-modal multi-device in-home monitoring, but we can bite of small parts as thesis and masters topics.
### MathsTiles 2, and comparing different ways of learning algebra
MathsTiles was a little something I cooked up back in the early 2000s. It's like Scratch-for-mathematics, only it can scale from algebra all the way up to complex number theory proofs.
A colleague in education (Bing Ngu) has been doing research on teaching algebra using the "balance method" or the "inversion method". These are conceptually fairly easy to represent and try out in a tile-like-environment. So, let's do this...
A colleague in education (Bing Ngu) has been doing research on teaching algebra using the "balance method" or the "inversion method". These are conceptually fairly easy to represent and try out in a tile-like-environment. So, let's build an app for it and try both methods, computer-enabled, with children.
There's a few other tricks I'd like to use so that students learn something about programming along the way (solving an equation is an algorithm; I'd like them to take them from it being a task where the mechanics of the system guides them (which tiles you can move) to one where they discover the rules of the algorithm, and can express them using a Scratch-like language.
There's a few other tricks I'd like to use so that students learn something about programming along the way. Solving an equation is an algorithm; I'd like to scaffold it so the task progresses from a task where the mechanics of the system guides the student (which tiles you can move) to one where they discover the rules of the algorithm, and can express them using a Scratch-like language.
### UI components for an AI-enabled world
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