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workplace training teams

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TutorLoop uses sensors and AI to improve student focus and learning

TutorLoop: Regulating Student Learning Behaviors via Sensor-in-the-Loop Generative Feedback

Abstract: We present TutorLoop, a sensor-in-the-loop system that regulates student learning behaviors by delivering adaptive feedback based on real-time cognitive states. Unlike prior large language model (LLM) tutors that directly depend on scenario-specific content, TutorLoop operates on sensor-derived signals captured via webcams. Moreover, unlike direct cognitive-to-feedback mappings that are short-sighted, the system employs a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) agent to optimize the feedback type across the entire learning process. Finally, another LLM tutor refines feedback into human-like, context-aware messages. We evaluate TutorLoop in a large-scale user study (N=187), where a model trained offline is directly applied to a new learning task without retraining. Results show that TutorLoop provides less frequent yet more effective interventions, improving attention, reducing workload, increasing engagement, and ultimately enhancing learning outcomes. These findings highlight the potential of closed-loop, sensor-driven feedback for scalable human-AI integrated systems to support learning.

Wed 7 OctHuman-Computer InteractionArtificial Intelligence
The gist
Students often lose focus or get frustrated during learning, making it harder to learn well. The authors created TutorLoop, a system that watches students through webcams to figure out how they are feeling and thinking. It uses advanced AI to decide when and what kind of messages to send to help students concentrate and stay engaged. Their tests with real students showed that TutorLoop gave feedback less often but more effectively, helping students pay attention and learn better. This approach could make learning tools smarter and more personal without needing teachers to watch constantly.
Open → 2610.09400v1

AI workspace tracks adult learning with controlled help and evidence

LearnAdapt Praxis: Controlled AI Assistance and Evidence Traces for Adult Workplace Learning

Abstract: AI can help adults produce plausible workplace artefacts while leaving their independent reasoning difficult to inspect. LearnAdapt Praxis addresses this design problem through a five-stage learning workspace: Frame, Learn, Build, Validate and Transfer. The application stores an initial response, versioned specifications, coaching records, validation observations, a separate transfer response and facilitator feedback. Project-level server controls restrict coaching, access to earlier work and learner export during an active transfer attempt; they do not establish that a learner avoided assistance outside the application. This technical report describes the implemented architecture and evaluates selected workflow, authority, failure-recovery and provenance properties. A reproducible synthetic rehearsal exercised 120 serial project episodes across three fictional workplace contexts and four injected provider conditions. All 3,990 recorded checks met their specified expectations. The resulting records contained 240 specification versions, 1,200 activity events and 60 stored synthetic hints; 60 injected provider failures produced no fabricated hints. Separate authentication regressions exposed and resolved a session-expiry defect, and limited staging and production checks verified account access and live model connectivity. The evidence supports the tested engineering properties of the recorded release. It does not establish learning gains, model-output quality, unaided assessment validity, population usability or production capacity. The contribution is an implemented arrangement for separating assisted work, project-level assistance withdrawal and inspectable evidence, accompanied by executable tests and an explicit account of what remains to be validated with adult learners.

Fri 2 OctComputers and SocietyHuman-Computer Interaction
The gist
Workplace learning with AI can make it hard to see what someone truly understands because AI might do a lot of work for them. The authors built a workspace called LearnAdapt Praxis that helps adults learn by controlling when AI can help and keeping detailed records of what was done and when. It organizes learning in five steps and makes sure that help is restricted during important parts. Their tests on lots of fake work projects showed the system works as expected for tracking and controlling assistance. However, the system’s effect on actual learning or quality of AI outputs still needs more research with real learners.
Open → 2610.02699v1