Practice and feedback are two of the most important aspects to develop public speaking skills. Having always a human tutor available providing learners with feedback regarding their presentations skills is not feasible. The Presentation Trainer (PT) is a system designed to help learners to develop basic skills for public speaking. It allows learners to practice their presentation while receiving real-time feedback regarding their non-verbal communication. After practicing their presentation, the PT presents learners with the opportunity to reflect on their performance.

Research Project

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Github:

https://github.com/janschneiderou/PT20

Publications

  • Schneider, J., Börner, D., Van Rosmalen, P., & Specht, M. (2015, November). Presentation trainer, your public speaking multimodal coach. In Proceedings of the 2015 ACM on International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (pp. 539-546). acm.
  • Schneider, J., Börner, D., Van Rosmalen, P., & Specht, M. (2016). Can you help me with my pitch? Studying a tool for real-time automated feedback. IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 9(4), 318-327.
  • Schneider, J., Börner, D., Van Rosmalen, P., & Specht, M. (2017). Presentation Trainer: what experts and computers can tell about your nonverbal communication. Journal of computer assisted learning, 33(2), 164-177.
  • Schneider, J., Börner, D., Van Rosmalen, P., & Specht, M. (2016, September). Enhancing public speaking skills-an evaluation of the Presentation Trainer in the wild. In European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (pp. 263-276). Springer, Cham.
  • Schneider, J., Börner, D., Van Rosmalen, P., & Specht, M. (2017, June). Do You Know What Your Nonverbal Behavior Communicates?–Studying a Self-reflection Module for the Presentation Trainer. In International Conference on Immersive Learning (pp. 93-106). Springer, Cham.