SUNY Polytechnic Institute artificial intelligence project

SUNY Polytechnic Institute has begun research on the use of artificial intelligence in classrooms. "The basic gist of it is we're trying to recognize the emotional states that a student is feeling while they are using virtual reality or augmented reality in the classroom." Dr. Reale says that in order for professors to be able to correctly respond to how a student is performing in class, they need to understand how the student is feeling. "The goal here is to have a device that's on the virtual or augmented reality headset such that it recognizes the emotional state of the student, and for this particular project we are targeting what are called non-standard expressions." The project has 2 phases.