Stimulation Methods for Students' Studies using Wearables Technology: Expecting Innovation in learning in Asia-Pacific nations

摘要

Asia-Pacific nations' declining birth rate and growing proportion of elderly people will lead to more importance in higher educations for the coming ages where low efficient jobs will be replaced by new technologies and students must work even harder to acquire valued-skills esteemed by societies. This paper proposes a stimulation method for students' learning by taking advantages of the recent advancement in personal IoT technologies of wearable devices in conjunction with using sports training approach to be applied to a group of members. Based on clustering students as an effective way of characterizing students, personal vital data and life log are to be integrated for judging on-going and even real-time status of students. A system will be developed based on this study to feedback necessary information and cautions to students. The study has achieved initial analysis on vital data obtained from wristband-type wearable devices in the three-year research project from 2016.