Smart Interactive Learning Measures for the Modern Education System

Learning with Smart Multipurpose Interactive Learning Environment

In this paper, we describe an innovative concept of threedimensional interactive educational games that combine the excitement and looks of popular computer games with the educational potential of electronic study materials and its realization by a system called S.M.I.L.E. – Smart Multipurpose Interactive Learning Environment. One of its key features is the consideration of various learners’ ab...

Smart Learning Desk: Towards an Interactive Classroom

The classroom needs to be upgraded. With many advances in Augmented Reality projects for education and with the explosion of more interactive input devices (touch, vision), we describe our position that smart desks should be part of the vision of the 21st century classroom. We introduce the Smart Learning Desk to showcase our position about smart desks in the classroom. We also describe two pos...

Learning-Based Energy Management System for Scheduling of Appliances inside Smart Homes

Improper designs of the demand response programs can lead to numerous problems such as customer dissatisfaction and lower participation in these programs. In this paper, a home energy management system is designed which schedules appliances of smart homes based on the user’s specific behavior to address these issues. Two types of demand response programs are proposed for each house which are sh...

Distance Learning: Modern Approaches to Engineering Education

Interactive Learning Tools for Enhancing the Education in Control Systems

1 Valeri Kroumov, Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University of Science, Okayama700-0005, Japan, [email protected] 2 Keishi Shibayama, Graduate School, Okayama University of Science, Okayama700-0005, Japan, [email protected] 3 Akira Inoue, Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University, Okayama700-8530, Japan, [email protected] Abstract In this paper we present a set of tools ...