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ERIC Number: EJ1460799
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Jan
Pages: 13
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-8756-3894
EISSN: EISSN-1559-7075
Available Date: 2024-11-27
Learning Undergraduate Data Science through a Mobile Device and Full Body Movements
SeHee Jung1; Hanwen Wang2; Bingyi Su1; Lu Lu1; Liwei Qing1; Xiaolei Fang1; Xu Xu1
TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, v69 n1 p149-161 2025
This study presents a mobile application (app) that facilitates undergraduate students to learn data science using their own full-body motion data. The app captures a user's movements through the built-in camera of a mobile device and processes the images for data generation using BlazePose, an open-source computer vision model for real-time pose estimation. Students can be entirely involved in the data collection process through the app. Consequently, the motion data is contextually rich and holds personal relevance for them. This connection allows students to establish a direct relationship between their body movements and the corresponding motion data, facilitating a deeper understanding of the data. The app then takes advantage of this motion data as a data source to demonstrate various concepts and techniques in data science. As examples of the proposed learning framework, we introduce two learning modules, one focused on principal component analysis and the other on k-means clustering. To reduce learning demands, the app also provides various visual aids, such as interactive graphs and figures, that simplify the learning by visualizing the geometric interpretation of the motion data. Strategies to encompass other data science methods are also discussed for further improvement.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Authoring Institution: N/A
Grant or Contract Numbers: 2013451
Author Affiliations: 1North Carolina State University, Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Raleigh, USA; 2Texas A&M University, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Corpus Christi, USA