SMI Launches 'Digital Classroom' for Student Research

German eye tracking technology provider SensoMotoric Instruments (SMI) has launched a new framework to enable education researchers to collect behavioral data from up to 40 students simultaneously.

The new 'SMI Digital Classroom' - which includes PCs, eye trackers and software in a customisable package - has been developed to enable researchers in educational and learning sciences, psychology, cognitive science and neuroscience to uncover the factors that deliver 'successful learning outcomes'. The solution can be used to design experiments with multi-sensory stimuli including text, images, video and dynamic web sites. It can also monitor in real-time students' screens, visual attention, behavioral actions and live data quality; while analysing gaze and reading behaviour; and can be used with all students sitting together in a traditional classroom environment, or situated in multiple locations.

Product Manager Markus Plank (pictured) comments: 'At what point does a student lose interest in learning or simply miss key information? This product promises a wealth of data about what works in a classroom environment and what doesn't; where and when students' attention is won and lost, and longer term, gives researchers insights that shape curriculum and learning strategies'.

Web site: www.smi.de .