Presentation Trainer: Polishing Your Communication Skills
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The paper presents the evolution of Presentation Trainer, a prototypical sensor-based toolkit that works as a public speaking instructor. It tracks the learner’s body posture, movements and voice in order to provide instructional feedback on nonverbal communication skills. Based on our design-based research the current version of the Presentation Trainer is able to provide the learner with the type of feedback that it considers to be appropriate according to the learner’s performance; it includes haptic feedback helping to reduce the learner’s cognitive load.
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