Panasonic Gesture Recognition Demonstration at BETT 2010

For the very first time, this technology was demonstrated by Panasonic at BETT 2010. The demonstration shows how the new technology can be integrated with Panasonic's interactive whiteboard solutions to enable students to engage and interact with digital content in fresh and exciting methods, providing a new tool to teachers who are looking for new ways to manage and monitor student attention and response.

In this video demonstration of Panasonic Gesture Recognition technology we see how in a classroom learning environment the solution can be used for recognising and registering faces and hand gestures. For example, it can be used to take a class vote or to see how many students know the correct answer to a question. Before the teacher starts the exercise, they input the number of students in the class into the PC and a threshold at which to measure the required number of students giving the correct answer.

A teacher could ask a question about something displayed on the interactive whiteboard, for example, what colour is this flower? When the students start raising their hands, the Gesture Recognition technology recognises the faces and references them with the raised hands of the students that claim to know the answer. Flash animations are displayed on the screen, for example, a progressively smiley face whose smile widens as more pupils raise their hands can be used. Once the threshold number of students is successfully reached and enough students claim to know the correct answer, the celebration animation can be displayed, for instance, fireworks or hand clapping.




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This video was produced in conjunction with Kids Witness News

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[Raveheart90]

A minute into this demonstration, and I'm already thinking of enough ways this can be incredibly annoying.

Seems a bit superfluous to me, personally.

[ryanscottwright]

This can be used in countless applications.