About the Project
With the start of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, it has become necessary for us to find alternate means to meet to our day to day needs. While this has been addressed there are still aspects of our normal life that are yet to be met to. One of them is our current means of education. Many institutions have taken to digital platforms conducting live sessions through meetings and other similar mediums. However, one of the challenges that they face with this approach is conducting exams online.
When conducting exams online, especially if those are along the lines of multiple choice questions and such, students are capable of finding answers very easily which in most cases results in cheating. This brings forward the issue that this method of examination (MCQs) might not be the ideal means to evaluate a student's capability and extent of knowledge.
Our research team is creating a website where, when a student answers a question, to understand the behaviour and validate accordingly we take note of the movement of the mouse. The motion of the device is recorded and with this we will be identifying and interpreting how much of the question each student actually knows correctly and how much of it might be guesswork.If a student takes more time than expected to answer a quiz item we can infer that the quiz item has higher difficulty level. This will allow teachers to understand the level of each student and give more attention accordingly.
About Us
Dr. Maiga Chang
Supervisor
Dr. Maiga Chang is a Full Professor in the school of Computing and Information Systems at Athabasca University, Canada
Dr. Senthil Kumar
Dr. T. Senthil Kumar currently serves as Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Amrita School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore,India.
Our Team
Karthika Sethunath
Current Member
Karthika Sethunath
is a postgraduate student of Applied statistics and Data Analytics from Amrita School of Engineering, India (2020-2022)
Anjana K R
Current Member
Anjana K R is a postgraduate student of Applied statistics and Data Analytics from Amrita School of Engineering, India (2020-2022)
Frequenty Asked Questions
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What data do you collect from users?
We are strictly against the idea of collecting user sensitive data from the device. We only collect user's POI(Point of Interest) from time to time and send it to the server as an enctypted data, so we don't know what POI the users have been before. Additionally,users can remove any POIs they have been to, permanently at anytime from their device and the server. Users could give background location permission to get accurate results from the recomemndation engine.
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I do not have access to mobile data. Can I use this application?
Our App has offline functionality. Whenever the device is connected to Wireless network, it can download POI(Point of Interest) data and synchronize all data to the server.
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Does this application drain a lot of battery?
The app has two options for collecting users data, (1) Detecting user's location only when the app is open and (2) Detecting the user's location in the background. Users have an options to change this settings in the profile page. Moreover, even if the app is allowed to work in background, the app will not cdetect the device's location if the user's battery is below a critical level.
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Can I wipe out my existence?
Yes, Users have an option to wipe out their existence from Profile page, all the data saved in the local device and server will be wiped out.
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When wille the app detect my location?
The app has two options for collecting users data, (1) Detecting user's location only when the app is open and (2) Detecting the user's location in the background. Users have an options to change this settings in the profile page
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Will the app store my location?
The app will never store your location in any form. We use the location coordinates to get Point of Interest, which will be stored locally and in server encrypted form, so we don't know what POI the users have been before.
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Does the app detects my location in background?
The app will detect the location in background if user has given the permission in profile page. This permission can be revoked by user at any point of time by turning it off in the settings page.
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Can I configure the app to only detect my location while I am using it?
Yes, you can configure it in the profile page. Turning off background usage would mean the app will be able to detect location only when user is using it.