Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Workshop on Multimedia-based Educational and Knowledge Technologies for Personalized and Social Online Training

Abstract

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 1st International Workshop on Multimedia-based Educational and Knowledge Technologies for Personalized and Social Online Training -- MultiEdTech 2017. Educational and Knowledge Technologies (EdTech), especially in connection to multimedia content and the vision of mobile and personalized learning, is a hot topic in both academia and the business start-ups ecosystem. The driver and enabler of this is on the one side the development and widespread availability of multimedia materials and MOOCs, which represent multimedia content produced specifically for supporting e-learning; and, on the other side, the ever increasing availability of all sorts on information on the Internet and in social media channels (e. g., lectures, research papers, user-generated videos, news items), which, despite not directly targeting e-learning, can prove to be valuable complements to the more targeted learning materials. Although the availability of such content is not a problem these days, finding the right content and associating different relevant pieces of multimedia so as to enable a comprehensive learning experience on a chosen subject is by no means a trivial task. The MultiEdTech 2017 workshop provides a forum for presenting research in areas related to multimedia-based educational and knowledge technologies and particularly on the use of multimedia search and retrieval, analysis and understanding, browsing, summarization, recommendation, and visualization technologies on multimedia content available in specialized learning platforms, the Web, mobile devices and/or social networks for supporting personalized and adaptive e-learning and training. The workshop will be kicked off with an exciting keynote talk: Dr. Pablo Cesar from CWI, Amsterdam on "Sensing Engagement: Helping Performers to Evaluate their Impact". Dr. Cesar leads the Interactive and Distributed Systems group at CWI, which focuses on facilitating and improving the way people access media and communicate with others and with the environment. The keynote will overview on gathering data and understanding the experience of people attending cultural events, public lectures, and courses by using wearable sensor technology. Through practical case studies in different areas of the creative industries and education, it will showcase results and discuss about failures. As paper presentations, we cover: "Train in Virtual Court: Basketball Tactic Training via Virtual Reality" by Wan-Lun Tsai, Ming-Fen Chung, Tse-Yu Pan, and Min-Chun Hu, presents a basketball tactic training system based on multimedia and virtual reality (VR) technologies. Sabrina Kletz, Klaus Schoeffmann, Bernd Munzer, and Manfred J. Primus present with "Surgical Action Retrieval for Assisting Video Review of Laparoscopic Skills" an information retrieval system to find surgical actions from video collections of gynecologic surgeries based on two novel content descriptors. Houssem Chatbri, Kevin McGuinness, Suzanne Little, Jiang Zhou, Keisuke Kameyama, Paul Kwan, and Noel E. O'Connor demonstrate with "Automatic MOOC video classification using transcript features and convolutional neural network" the use of modern deep learning techniques for topic classification of MOOC videos. "Chat2Doc: From Chats to How-to Instructions, FAQ, and Reports" by Britta Meixner, Matt Lee, and Scott Carter demonstrates a system that aims to collect, store, and automatically extract procedural knowledge from messaging interactions.