A system of automatic monitoring of students' emotional state

One of contemporary approaches to conducting instruction, control and testing, as well as special training sessions on simulators with controlled stress load is based on biological feedback (BFB). Realization of a BFB technology requires adaptation of the teaching or training process to students' current emotional state. This strategy increases effectiveness of training, thus ensuring the necessary level of acquisition of knowledge and skills. The paper discusses findings of an experimental study of the potential of a system of automatic monitoring. The system involved automatic monitoring of students' emotional state on the basis of analyzing their current bioparameters with the help of contact and no contact techniques. The current emotional state of each participant was assessed with the help of optic techniques (of the visible and infra-red ranges). Acoustic assessment was performed not individually, but for the whole group in order to detect tiredness or agitation. The experimental sample of the system developed by the authors can be regarded as a prototype of a future automatic system supporting BFB technologies with a wide range of applications.