Project Summary The team will conduct a PoC to automatically visualize the discussions that take place in classes using directional microphones. By feeding back the visualized data to teachers and students, the project aims to promote learner-centered classes and improve their qualities for students who will become elementary school teachers in the future.

Challenges In improving classes, it is essential to objectively understand the speech of teachers and students, recognize the problems, and make improvements. A solution that can visualize and analyze the behavior and speech of teachers and students as well as provide feedbacks would enable them to effectively learn techniques for improving classes.

Solution The team will provide “Hylable Discussion” - an egg-shaped microphone to visualize face-to-face discussions - to an elementary teacher training school and conduct a PoC to automatically visualize discussions held in classes. The device can analyze discussions automatically even in high noise environments with stable performance and give feedback based on the obtained data to teachers and students.