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- [January 2019] UNDER CONSTRUCTION CEUR WS proceedings for
- [December 2018] My first Doctoral Consortium paper during PhD titled as "MULTIFOCUS: MULTImodal Learning Analytics FOr Co-located Collaboration Understanding and Support" is published in the CEUR WS proceedings for DCECTEL 2018
- [December 2018] Attended the Annual general meeting of CEL (Center for Education and Learning) in Den Haag on 19th Dec, presented a poster on my PhD research and got some valuable feedback about scalability of my research
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My name is Sambit Praharaj. Now, I have started my new research adventure as a PhD candidate in the Technology Enhanced Learning Innovations (TELI) group at Welten Institute in Open University of Netherlands from 1st of September. I live in the beautiful city of Valkenburg sandwiched between Germany and Belgium in near proximity. My promotors are Prof. dr. Marcus Specht and Prof. dr. Hendrik Drachsler. Additionally, I have Dr. Maren Scheffel as my supportive daily supervisor. My research primarily focuses on the use of Multimodal Learning Analytics (MMLA) in a Co-located Collaboration (CC) scenario. Apart from diving deep into my PhD research, my other plans are to widen my knowledge and experience in Neural networks and Deep Learning by following other courses from Coursera and Udacity. I am also following other books and online resources to get hands-on experience in Scikit and Tensorflow. It can help me to strengthen my PhD research at later stages when I build the prediction models to support CC in real-time. My research interests revolve around Multimodal Learning, Technology Enhanced Learning, AI, Human Computer Interaction, Learning Analytics, Educational sciences and Psychological Behaviour.
Previously, I was a Master's student in the Web Information Systems group in Computer Science at TU Delft collaborating with Lambda Lab and researchers from University of Lugano, Switzerland. My advisors were Prof. Alessandro Bozzon and Prof. Claudia Hauff. The platform which I was using for my thesis is ASQ whose founder Vasileios Triglianos, currently a PhD student in the Faculty of Informatics at the University of Lugano was also assisting me in my thesis. I finished my thesis on "Data Analytics in Web-based Education in the Higher-education Classroom". Main focus was on developing tools and methods in classroom analytics using web-based lecturing tools where I was responsible for preparing the slides which are to be used in the Bachelor's Course of Web and Database Technology for the session 2016-17 which was mostly designed in impress.js and some using reveal.js in ASQ. My other focus was to design a traffic light type semaphore lamp which can help in the visualization of the attention states of the whole classroom in realtime whose initial design is in this repository. This design was left in its premature stages due to time constraints during a Master's thesis. Afterwards, the data i.e. gathered as log files from all the lectures which is around 19 which includes 15 live lectures and 4 live labs that use ASQ for live database query, quizzes and live nodejs implementation was analyzed in this repository from different perspectives to indicate the attention level, reaction time, cognitive load, performance, attention variation, property of different group of students, etc. which can improve the current state-of-the-art classroom teaching while lessening the burden of teachers as they can get some idea regarding the state of the classroom from these indicators to improve their courses next year and also may work on some kind of intervention as a future work.
Open Universiteit - TELI, Welten Institute, PenOW
Valkenburgerweg 177, 6419 AT
Heerlen
The Netherlands
Office: Chiba building
Valkenburgerweg 177, 6419 AT
Heerlen
The Netherlands
Email: sambit[DOT]praharaj[AT]ou[DOT]nl or sambit_praharaj[AT]yahoo[DOT]com
- [November 2018] Attended the Conference or Education festival in Leiden on 1st November and gained some insights about group dynamics in a higher education classroom from a psychological perspective
- [September 2018] My first Youtube Channel was launched. Here is my first introduction vlog explaining the main purpose of the channel
- [September 2018] I attended the EC-TEL Conference in Leeds, UK and presented a full research paper titled as "Multimodal Analytics for Real-time Feedback in Co-located Collaboration". The slides of the presentation can be found here. The overall experience about attending the EC-TEL conference from my perspective can be found here
- [September 2018] I attended the EC-TEL Conference in Leeds, UK and presented my research in the doctoral consortium which can be found here. I also made a poster for the same
- [August 2018] I Co-edited the EC-TEL Practitioner Track Proceedings, 2018
- [August 2018] My first full research paper during PhD titled as "Multimodal Analytics for Real-time Feedback in Co-located Collaboration" is published in the Springer LNCS proceedings
- [August 2018] I successfully defended my one year PhD review with Bertrand Schneider, Roland Klemke and Karel Kreijns in the review panel
- [June 2018] My first full research paper and doctoral consortium paper during my PhD was accepted at EC-TEL Conference and will be published in Springer LNCS proceedings in September, 2018
- [May 2018] I attended the Joint Technology Enhanced Learning Summer School (organized by European Association of Technology Enhanced Learning) in Albania and organized a Design-Swarm Workshop to identify the indicators of Co-located Collaboration and visualization techniques to support it in real-time
- [March 2018] I attended the SIKS Winterschool on Affective Computing and Social Signal Processing in Noordwijk, Netherlands
- [Jan 2019] Reviewed 5 papers (consisting of 3 full papers, one short paper and one poster paper) for CSCL (Computer Supported Collaborative Learning), 2019
- [August 2018] Co-edited the EC-TEL Practitioner Track Proceedings, 2018
- [July 2018] Reviewed 2 Doctoral Consortium papers for EC-TEL (European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning), 2018
- [June 2018] Reviewed 3 papers (consisting of two short papers and one long paper) for ICMI (International Conference on Multimodal Interaction), 2018