Stand Tall and Raise Your Voice! A Study on the Presentation Trainer [chapter]

Jan Schneider, Dirk Börner, Peter van Rosmalen, Marcus Specht
2015 Lecture Notes in Computer Science  
The increasing accessibility of sensors has made it possible to create instructional tools able to present immediate feedback to their users. In order to study how this type of instruction can have an effect on learning, we created the Presentation Trainer: a prototype designed to help users to develop their nonverbal communication skills for public speaking. In this paper we present our work in progress on the Presentation Trainer, which includes two user studies. The studies showed that
more » ... ipants would gladly use the Presentation Trainer to prepare for oral presentations, and pointed out to some considerations required for the design of tools able to effectively support a complex learning task through immediate feedback. Keywords: Immediate feedback interface, sensor-based learning support, public speaking, design-based research.
doi:10.1007/978-3-319-24258-3_23 fatcat:qndbsi6x5bhmndycjpsw6v5w7a