Artificial Intelligence In Psychomotor Learning: Modeling Human Motion From Inertial Sensor Data

Recent trends in educational technology focus on designing systems that can support students while learning complex psychomotor skills, such as those required when practicing sports and martial arts, dancing or playing a musical instrument. In this context, artificial intelligence can be key to personalize the development of these psychomotor skills by enabling the provision of effective feedback when the instructor is not present, or scaling up to a larger pool of students the feedback that an instructor would typically provide one-on-one. This paper presents the modeling of human motion gathered with inertial sensors aimed to offer a personalized support to students when learning complex psychomotor skills. In particular, when comparing learner data with those of an expert during the psychomotor learning process, artificial intelligence algorithms can allow to: (i) recognize specific motion learning units and (ii) assess learning performance in a motion unit. However, it seems that this field is still emerging, since when reviewed systematically, search results hardly included the motion modeling with artificial intelligence techniques of complex human activities measured with inertial sensors.