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Life gets busy because of our time commitments and work schedules. We always care for our dear ones, but is gets hard to be aware of the schedule of our dear ones especially when they life in different time zones.
Our challenge was to make a design using which we can make dear ones in different time zones aware of each other's schedule and stay in touch with each other.
The Challenge
The Problem
To find out the capabilities of Watson, we researched where Watson was used previously and we also talked to the people at IBM to know more about Watson. We found our that watson can only parse text data as input which becomes its knowledge bases and can answer questions asked about that data in percentage probability.
We also did primary research by talking to professors and researchers in education and secondary online research to find out about existing technologies used to know student performance and understanding.
We found that knowing where students struggle helps teachers change their course and teaching methods to make it more understandable. Problem is that the existing technologies can only be used for grading and doesn't have any idea of context and trends or patterns in student understanding.
The Solution
We created rosalind, a system which uses IBM Watson to find what parts of the course students understand well and what are the parts student struggle with. Rosalind is not used for grading student work.
The data corpus from which Watson can be trained can only be in text form. In our system Watson can be trained using following data:
•The literature texts related to the course
•Some ideal previously written papers
•Some incorrectly written papers
•Current papers which students write as a part of curriculum
•Any other supplemental sources for grammar and writing style knowledge
Watson can learn about the understanding of the coursework by analysing current papers against the following traits:
•Improper citation
•Being too wordy
•Writing incorrectly
•No right links and connections in what’s being written
•Frequency of citation
•Patterns of mistakes
•Contradictions to the original literature
Once trained, a teacher can use watson to know the understanding of the course content.
Result
We created a design which connects dear ones who are separated by time. With our design, they can be aware of each others schedules and connect with each other when they have free time. If you forget to connect with them, you would be subtly reminded so that you are always in touch.
My Contribution
I did secondary research, created personas, did intial and final concept sketching, contributed to make the physical prototype, created the concept scenario and usablility test script, conducted usablility test, and created the final presentation.