to any faced issues (Wioleta, 2013). The wearable
sensors used to collect such physiological data vary
from uncomfortable bio-sensors (Hang et al., 2014),
comfortable t-shirts with integrated fabric electrodes
and sensors (Valenza et al., 2014), to wristband sen-
sors (Thapliyal et al., 2017)(Koskimaki et al, 2017).
Among these types of sensors, wristband sensors are
known to be more comfortable in terms of mobility,
mounting location, and continuous skin connection.
The last approach combines smart-phones and we-
arable sensors to collect physiological data, human
behaviour, and moods/emotions tags from users as
well as displaying the detected results to users via
smart-phones (Sano and Picard, 2013)(Zenonos et al.,
2016). This approach leverages all advantages of
smart-phones and wearable sensors to collect data and
detect moods/emotions while still maintaining high
level of convenience and freedom for users.
From psychological perspective, moods and emo-
tions are used to express feelings that people expe-
rience. Although these words are frequently used
interchangeably, there are many differences between
moods and emotions (Beedie et al., 2005). The main
ones are related to intensity, the objects people react
to, and the duration they last. While emotions are
intense feelings directed at someone or something,
moods are feelings that tend to be less intense and
often (though not always) lack a contextual stimu-
lus (Robbins et al., 2010). Besides, a mood may last
longer than an emotion (e.g. hours/days versus se-
conds/minutes) (Beedie et al., 2005).
In order to avoid any misunderstanding, in this pa-
per we use emotions for expressing the feelings of stu-
dents in a classroom where students (university level
in current study) react to a lecturer, a lesson activity,
or their classmates within a limited time; and moods
for out-of-classroom feelings that are heavily influen-
ced by the environment, physiology, or mental state.
In other words, the contexts of emotions and moods
are within-a-classroom and throughout-the-day, re-
spectively.
Many researches have tried to understand the im-
pact of moods and emotions on education based
on two independent contexts: in classroom (Hang
et al., 2014)(Lewine et al., 2015)(Liew and Tan,
2016)(Mainhard et al., 2017), and on campus (Bryan
et al., 1996)(Febrilia and Warokka, 2011)(Kikamwa
et al., 2013)(Gjoreski et al., 2015). Although these
studies have found useful results, there are still open
questions that need to be investigated thoroughly:
1. The research carried out by (Mainhard et al.,
2017) highlights that the students’ emotional ex-
periences can be driven by evolving the specific
relationship between lecturers and students during
class time. Therefore, it would be very useful
to have a tool that can visualize students’ emo-
tions during a class to allow a lecturer to flexibly
change his/her educational method or activity in
order to stimulate positive emotions that enhance
the teaching-learning process.
2. There seem to be no work we are aware if on
discovering association/correlation between daily
moods and classroom emotions of learners. For
example, if one student comes to a class with ne-
gative moods (e.g. nervous, stressed) due to not
yet finishing his/her assignment though staying
late last night, whether this student can have ex-
cited and relaxed emotions during the class time
though a classroom’s atmosphere is very exciting?
3. There are few studies that investigated associa-
tion/correlation between a student’s lifestyle and
his/her daily moods. In this study, we are inte-
rested to investigate, for example, if long-term ne-
gative moods of a student are correlated with a
certain lifestyle (e.g. staying up late, exercising
too much, lack of physical activity, etc.). This
may enable student’s counseling to be triggered
automatically and provides valuable input for the
counseling process.
This paper addresses the above questions at a uni-
versity level by creating a framework, namely He-
althyClassroom, which uses wristband sensors and
smart-phones to collect physiological, physical acti-
vities, and event tags data to detect and visualize
students’ daily moods and classroom emotions, as
well as to discover any association/correlation bet-
ween students’ lifestyles and daily moods.
2 HEALTHYCLASSROOM
Figure 1 illustrates an overview of the Healthy-
Classroom framework. In this context, mood and
emotion can be used interchangeably according to
the context (i.e. if the framework is applied inside a
classroom, emotion is considered, otherwise mood
is used). The physiological, location, and event
tags data (when users provide input by tagging
specific events) are sent from wristband sensors
and smart-phones to a cloud-computing platform.
Using this data, students moods and emotions
are then detected/recognized and displayed on a
website that can be accessed by lecturers and/or
administration users. The timeliness of such in-
formation provides valuable input to understand
the ongoing teaching-learning process and improve
the delivery and interaction between lecturers and
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