Estimating Activity Conditions of Students in Class by Measuring Leg Movement

Abstract

In this study, we propose a method for estimating students’ activity conditions in a class by measuring their leg movements. Grasping students’ activity conditions are important for teachers to adjust the class progress. The optimal progress will improve understanding of the students. However, measuring students’ activity conditions in a class is challenging because it may interfere with their studies. Thus, we introduce a method that measures students’ leg movement to estimate their activity condition in a class. Consequently, we found that the variation in the leg movement was often peaked at the time of activity switching in an actual class. Meanwhile, the leg movement did not continue to increase as it would increase the students’ fatigue. The results that students’ activity conditions in a class can be estimated by measuring students’ leg movement. We conducted experiments in the actual class and focused on detecting multiple students’ activity conditions. Measuring students’ activity will enable us to estimate individual activity conditions.