GENERATING PROBING QUESTIONS TO TEST ATTENTION TO AUTOMATED EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS

Patent №

US 11,164,473

Granted

2021-11-02

Filed 2019

Owner

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

AI components

5

ml · nlp · kr · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

16278569

A method, apparatus and program product utilize an automated educational tool to generate or modify one or more multiple choice questions in a question set in connection with tracking a user's attention state to dynamically vary the difficulty of a user assessment performed by the automated educational tool and thereby encourage the user to pay greater attention to the material being presented to the user.

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Planning1.00
Knowledge representation1.00
Machine learning1.00
AI hardware1.00
Speech0.35
Evolutionary computation0.26
Vision0.03

Ownership

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

assignment · 484210845

Assignors

BYRON, DONNA K., DIMASCIO, CARMINE, JOHNSON, BENJAMIN LUKE, PINEL, FLORIAN

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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