ABSTRACT

Education Technology (EdTech) companies are deploying emotional AI to quantify social and emotional learning. Focusing on facial coding emotional AI that uses computer vision and algorithms to see, recognise, categorise and learn about facial expressions of emotion, this paper evaluates nascent usage of these technologies in education. To do this, it assesses the nature of child rights, the history and modern usage of face-based emotional AI, methodology and efficacy, and what this paper sees as a clash of private and public interests. Concern is shown to be two-fold: first is on method, especially given scope for material effects on students; second are ethical and legal concerns. While proposing a list of considerations for any implementation for these technologies in the classroom, the paper concludes that significant risks exist in deployment of these technologies in the classroom.

摘要

教育技术（EdTech）公司正在部署情感AI来量化社交和情感学习。专注于使用计算机视觉和算法查看，识别，分类和学习情绪面部表情的面部表情情感AI，本文评估了这些技术在教育中的新兴应用。为此，它评估了儿童权利的性质，基于面部的情感AI的历史和现代用法，方法和功效，以及本文所认为的私人和公共利益的冲突。令人担忧的有两个方面：首先是方法，特别是考虑到对学生产生物质影响的范围。第二是道德和法律方面的问题。提出了在教室中实施这些技术的注意事项清单，