Experimental Facial Expression and Gesture Training Towards Academic Affect Modeling

The engagement of students during examination can be evaluated by their emotion. This relates to the application of affective computing in education. This paper reports the basis and status of designing an academic affect model towards engagement identification of students taking on-line examination. The initial status defined academic affect that relates to student affect during on-line examination and the validation of data sets are created for use of this study and future work. Status on progress includes video data collected and expert annotated data set.