This AI Tool Could Help Students in the Classroom

This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. For as long as classrooms have existed, students have dutifully crossed their “t’s” and dotted their “i’s” on paper using pens, pencils, or paint. But a group of researchers in Taiwan envision a very different approach to learning via their AI edge-computing program. The platform allows students to draw their handwriting and artwork in midair with their fingers, while motion-tracking technology projects their writing onto a computer screen at the front of the classroom. The approach, described in a study published on 10 April in the IEEE Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, could help teachers more efficiently manage and teach large groups of students—for example, by the ability to see real-time results of multiple students’ work on a large screen simultaneously. Liang-Bi Chen is an associate professor and chair of the department of computer science and information engin