Are you tired of a slow Wi-Fi connection hampering your social media life? Now you can utilise the idle time in enhancing your vocabulary with a new app.<\/p>\n
\nResearchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have developed a series of apps called “WaitSuite” that test users on vocabulary words.<\/p>\n
“WaitSuite is embedded directly into your existing tasks, so that you can easily learn without leaving what you were already doing,” said Carrie Cai, a PhD student who leads the project in a statement.<\/p>\n
“With stand-alone apps, it can be inconvenient to have to separately open them up to do a learning task,” Cai added.<\/p>\n
Among WaitSuite’s apps include “WiFiLearner” which gives users a learning prompt when it detects that their computer is seeking a WiFi connection.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, “ElevatorLearner” automatically detects when a person is near an elevator by sensing Bluetooth iBeacons and then sends users a vocabulary word to translate.<\/p>\n
“WaitSuite” covers five common daily tasks: waiting for WiFi to connect, emails to push through, instant messages to be received, an elevator to come or content on your phone to load.<\/p>\n
“When using the system’s instant messaging app ‘WaitChatter’, users learnt about four new words per day, or 57 words over just two weeks, the researchers said.<\/p>\n
“WaitSuite” was developed in collaboration with MIT professor Rob Miller and former MIT student Anji Ren.<\/p>\n
The team hopes to test other formats for micro-learning, like audio for on-the-go users. They even picture having the app remind users to practice mindfulness to avoid reaching for our phones in moments of impatience, boredom or frustration.<\/p>\n
A paper on the system is expected to be presented at ACM’s CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in Colorado in May.\u2014IANS<\/p>\n
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