A tool for improving the didactic experience

• Platform for insight driven marketing services

• Conceived for brands & advertising agencies

• Developed by b-sm@rk LTD, estabilished in 2010 in Ireland

• Winner of awards in EU and US

• $500K raised from irish-italian investors

• Affective computing (Picard 1994): systems that recognize, interpret and simulate human emotions

• Intelligent education environment: understanding learners’ emotions and detecting their frustration (Tian et al 2014)

• Several hardware sensors in development on this purpose

• MySmark EDU was tested in 2011, 2012 and 2013 at University of Camerino, Italy

• Courses in Computer Science, Biology, Veterinary

• N-parameters GUI widget + emotional tagging GUI widget

• MySmark EDU currently deployed as a plugin for the LMS Moodle

• Downloaded >240 times from moodle.org

We think it can help improve teaching by:

• Punctual, timely feedback

• Sampling expectations

• Sampling engagement

• Checking learning (quiz form)

• Sampling sentiment of the class

useful to teachers?

We think it can positively impact on:

• Motivation

• Attention, engagement

• Participation, interaction

• Puntual test of effective learning

useful to learners?

Nicola FarronatoCEO, founder

Paolo PanizzaCTO, founder

Nicola CannataMySmark EDU

Alessandro OltramariSemantic R&D

Fabio AlessandrelliChief Dev

b-sm@rk LtdGuinness Enterprise CentreTaylor’s Lane, Dublin 8, Ireland

Nicola Farronatobesmark@b-smark.com+353 85 7581215 +39 345 8492073