Face Recognition Based Attendance System Using Histogram of Oriented Gradients and Linear Support Vector Machine

In the 21st century, modern technology is playing an important role in providing innovative on traditional challenges across various domains or sectors. One such challenging task is of daily attendance marking and tracking. Manual attendance requires efforts and it is time-consuming. Sometimes attendance cannot be mark due to human errors. Relying on voice, iris, or fingerprint recognition, increases the complexity and the hardware infrastructure of the system and also increases the cost. To effectively address such issues, we have developed a “Camera based Attendance System”. This system encompasses several crucial stages, including data entry, dataset of multiple people. It is an image-based face recognition system for marking attendance on the SQL database. It excels in detecting and recognizing multiple individuals faces from image and comparing it with the dataset for accurately marking the attendance. This makes the attendance marking process fully automatic. Remarkably, our proposed system attains an impressive recognition and provides the accuracy of approximately 95%. With this solution, daily attendance marking and recording becomes effortless and the stored attendance record can be also used in future if require, eliminating the risk of attendance not getting marked due to human error.&nbsp

Issues and Challenges of Applying E-Learning: The Case of One State Islamic University

Indonesia is now overwhelmed with the issues and challenges in utilizing e-learning in many state Islamic universities. Moreover, this situation became worst when the COVID-19 influenced the teaching and learning process exponentially. This mixed methods study aimed to explore primary issues and challenges of using e-learning faced by one Indonesian state Islamic university in South Sumatra Province, Indonesia, and the solutions to overcome those hindrances. Three primary participants included students, academic staff, and faculty boards contributed to this study. The data obtained from closed and open-ended questionnaires and interviews were analyzed by using a thematic analysis. The findings revealed five primary issues and challenges of using e-learning such as infrastructure, digital content, individual constraints, technical support, and financial support

The spaces in between at Orbit High : an analysis of teenage behavior during breaks at school /

Includes vita.Most public schools in the United States were designed and built in the second half of the last century. Their buildings typically consist of classrooms and narrow, locker-lined hallways. The former clearly belong to the teachers and best support lecturestyle instruction. The latter are the locations for social interaction between students during their breaks. Many educators, administrators, and researchers worry about teenage behavior in high schools. Student peer culture is commonly understood as problematic. In response, break times typically are minimized, supervision routines are designed to be seamless, and educational policies regulate disciplinary institutional responses to acts of violence between students. This research study investigates teenagers' break behavior in a contemporary school building that is unlike the institutional school buildings most current educators are used to and experience as "normal". The ethnographic case examines the relationships between high school student break behavior, local disciplinary practices, and a school building designed to blur the boundaries between lounge-like social spaces and informal educational spaces. Over the course of six months, the researcher spent 42 school days with Orbit High's teenagers in the spaces in between. Primary sources of data were field notes, log entries, behavioral maps, and open-ended interviews with 24 purposefully chosen participants.Dr. Benyamin Schwarz, Dissertation Supervisor.|Includes vita.Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-200)

Natural Sciences Newsletter - Fall 2018

In this semester\u27s Parkland College Natural Sciences Newsletter, you\u27ll find a letter from Department Chair Scott Siechen, updates from the Natural Science Commons, the Planetarium, the Professional Development Committee, and Astronomy and Science Clubs. Also, we say hello and good bye to incoming and outgoing faculty, and learn about conference happenings

Smile, You\u27re on Camera: A Discussion of the Privacy Rights of Teachers in the Modern Day Classroom

Part II of this Article will first explain the purpose of wiretap (or recording) laws. It will then track the development of wiretap laws at the federal and state levels and illustrate several important distinctions. Part III will discuss the evolution of the Fourth Amendment in the United States. It will also examine how the Fourth Amendment and wiretap laws work together and how they apply to teachers. Part IV will look at the inadequacy of current legal remedies available to teachers who are surreptitiously recorded. It will then set forth possible district and classroom policies to help prevent recordings. Lastly, it will discuss the dire need for legislation regulating cell phone use in the classroom among the states. This Article will show that—amidst controversial issues such as state funding and bathroom bills—a prohibition on surreptitious recordings is commonsense legislation that will push education in the right direction

Use of an online interactive space analysis tool to understand student perceptions of four secondary schools

With the sheer complexity of the built environment, understanding the aspects of the building that directly impact the occupants can be prohibitively difficult. Previous methods have been largely split between low-number, high-detail methods (photo-surveys or interviews), or high-number, low-detail methods (questionnaires). This study presents an alternative to these methods; creating an online tool that represents a navigable building, enabling the occupants to freely identify any aspect of the building that they feel is important. This online tool deliberately works in a manner similar to Google Street View, taking advantage of this familiarity to reduce the learning curve and maximise immersion. Using spherical images captured with a special camera or smartphone, each space in the building is captured and then uploaded into the online tool. Whilst in the online version of their building, the respondent can navigate through the building, make unguided comments about any part of the building. Using this tool, four recently built secondary schools were imaged and online versions created. In each school, students from three ICT lessons aged between 11 and 14 explored the online version of their school and marked parts of the building that were important to them. The students were asked to follow a typical day in the school, moving from lesson to lesson and to the spaces they use at breaks. The tool collected both the movement data and the comments, allowing analysis of not just the occupant attitudes, but also the route the students take through the building. The movement data for each school was compared to the visual graph analysis of the building, showing that the movement of the students within the tool resembles patterns seen elsewhere; configurational logic with attractors. The rich data that is generated in parallel with the movement data allowed insights into the way in which the students moved through the space and what was important to them

Recommendations for the Classroom Technology and Layout at WPI

The Academic Technology Center (ATC) at WPI replaces the technology in each classroom every five years. The goal of this project, sponsored by the ATC, was to determine how current classroom technology could be improved to enhance the teaching and learning experience. Using interviews and surveys we gathered both qualitative and quantitative information from more than 140 faculty members and 550 students. Based on those findings, we formulated recommendations that include increasing the size of the podium tops and moving the projector screen to maximize board space

A tourism overcrowding sensor using multiple radio techniques detection

The motivation for this dissertation came from the touristic pressure felt in the historic neighborhoods of Lisbon. This pressure is the result of the rise in the number of touristic arrivals and the proliferation of local accommodation. To mitigate this problem the research project in which this dissertation is inserted aims to disperse the pressure felt by routing the tourists to more sustainable locations and locations that are not crowded. The goal of this dissertation is then to develop a crowding sensor to detect, in real-time, the number of persons in its vicinity by detecting how many smartphones it observes in its readings. The proposed solution aims to detect the wireless trace elements generated by the normal usage of smartphones. The technologies in which the sensor will detect devices are Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and the mobile network. For testing the results gathered by the sensor we developed a prototype that was deployed on our campus and in a museum, during an event with strong attendance. The data gathered was stored in a time-series database and a data visualization tool was used to interpret the results. The overall conclusions of this dissertation are that it is possible to build a sensor that detects nearby devices thereby allowing to detect overcrowding situations. The prototype built allows to detect crowd mobility patterns. The composition of technologies and identity unification are topics deserving future research.A motivação para a presente dissertação surgiu da pressão turística sentida nos bairros históricos de Lisboa. Esta pressão é a consequência de um crescimento do número de turistas e de uma cada vez maior utilização e proliferação do alojamento local. Para mitigar este problema o projeto de investigação em que esta dissertação está inserida pretende dispersar os turistas por locais sustentáveis e que não estejam sobrelotados. O objetivo desta dissertação é o de desenvolver um sensor que consiga detetar, em tempo real, detetar quantas pessoas estão na sua proximidade com base nos smartphones que consegue detetar. A solução proposta tem como objetivo detetar os traços gerados pela normal utilização de um smartphone. As tecnologias nas quais o sensor deteta traços de utilização são Wi-Fi, Bluetooth e a rede móvel. Para realizar os testes ao sensor, foi desenvolvido um protótipo que foi instalado no campus e num museu durante um evento de grande afluência. Os dados provenientes destes testes foram guardados numa base de dados de séries temporais e analisados usando uma ferramenta de visualização de dados. As conclusões obtidas nesta dissertação são que é possível criar um sensor capaz de detetar dispositivos na sua proximidade e detetar situações de sobrelotação/apinhamento. O protótipo contruído permite detectar padrões de mobilidade de multidões. A composição de tecnologias e a unificação de identidade são problemas que requerem investigação futura

Higher Education and Mobile Learning: How Innovative Instructors Use Mobile Applications for Learning

ABSTRACT This qualitative case study investigated the experiences of innovative higher education instructors from the Midwest United States regarding their use of mobile devices in their classes for student learning. Fourteen participants discussed how they specifically use mobile devices and applications for knowledge acquisition in interdisciplinary fields and to prepare students for professional roles in advanced fields. This study revealed innovative examples from interdisciplinary scholars regarding their use of mobile applications for real-time feedback, formative assessment, and continuous engagement. Professors also used mobile applications to give students technical opportunities to acquire knowledge and produce content through project-based learning. Professors described student use of relevant, industry-standard mobile technology for creating webpages, videos, and social media. Mobile devices and applications were used to promote student engagement, comprehension, and creative expression. An analysis conducted using Vygotsky’s (1978) theory of social constructivism and two frameworks widely adopted in the field of education: technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK; Mishra & Koehler, 2006) and universal design for learning (UDL; Meyer et al., 2014) revealed how students were successful and more engaged through introduction to mobile technology. This study confirmed students reached a higher level of knowledge related to their discipline because their instructors leveraged mobile technology in innovative ways. This study included recommendations for faculty development and strategic planning to address the skills and information necessary to allow faculty to effectively use mobile technology in their courses