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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 10, 2013
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Scott G. Bowden, Atlanta, GA (US);
Christopher J. Dawson, Arlington, VA (US);
Sanjeev Kumar V. Marimekala, Naugatuck, CT (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for real-time determination of attentiveness of an audience in a room to a speaker. A computer determines amounts of wireless activity of a computing device within the room of the audience over time during the presentation. Based in part on the amounts of wireless activity of the computing device, the computer determines and initiates display of measures of attentiveness of the audience over the time during the presentation, to display changes in the measures of attentiveness of the audience to the speaker during the presentation. In another embodiment, the computer determines amounts of attentiveness of the audience within the room over time during the presentation utilizing sensors located throughout the room.