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The Life2Well Project: Investigating the Effects of Microclimate on Physiological Stress and Brain Function with Data Science and Wearables

my team and i are very happy to share news of our very first publication in the field of the Science of Learning, with specific reference to neuroscience :-) our paper is published in a special issue of Sustainability, themed on 'Aspirations within Interdisciplinary STEM/STEAM Education under the Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)'.

since April 2021, we have been working hard on Learning at the intersection of AI, physiology, EEG, our environment and well-being (the Life2Well Project), in which we aim to afford learners opportunities to learn about their own learning, while they are learning, from a citizen science perspective.

an important part of our work is the validation of our maker-centric electroencephalographic headsets against industrial grade headsets. 

with the help of Dr Yuvaraj Rajamanickam and Dr Jack Fogarty of the Science of Learning in Education Centre at the National Institute of Education, we report our work in Volume 14 Issue 17 of the journal, as Investigating the Effects of Microclimate on Physiological Stress and Brain Function with Data Science and Wearables.

the abstract of our paper reads:

This paper reports a study conducted by students as an independent research project under the mentorship of a research scientist at the National Institute of Education, Singapore. The aim of the study was to explore the relationships between local environmental stressors and physiological responses from the perspective of citizen science. Starting from July 2021, data from EEG headsets were complemented by those obtained from smartwatches (namely heart rate and its variability and body temperature and stress score). Identical units of a wearable device containing environmental sensors (such as ambient temperature, air pressure, infrared radiation, and relative humidity) were designed and worn, respectively, by five adolescents for the same period. More than 100,000 data points of different types—neurological, physiological, and environmental—were eventually collected and were processed through a random forest regression model and deep learning models. The results showed that the most influential microclimatic factors on the biometric indicators were noise and the concentrations of carbon dioxide and dust. Subsequently, more complex inferences were made from the Shapley value interpretation of the regression models. Such findings suggest implications for the design of living conditions with respect to the interaction of the microclimate and human health and comfort.

the Life2Well Project at the 12th annual symposium of the Mobiles for Education Alliance

today our team received news that we have been invited to share Learning at the intersection of AI, physiology, EEG, our environment and well-being (the Life2Well Project) during the 12th annual symposium of the Mobiles for Education Alliance.

we thank God for His continued grace and provision.

this year, the symposium is being conducted as a series of online events, with the overarching theme of Wondrous Learning is ...!

the particular event which will feature the Life2Well Project is scheduled as a STEM-themed panel moderated by Michael McCabe, who is the Regional Director, Inter-America and Pacific Region, Peace Corps, on the 2nd of November.

The mEducation Alliance was formed by USAID in 2010. It is an international collaborative effort between bilateral and multilateral donors, NGOs, foundations, private sector partners, and academic researchers. The collective agenda of the alliance is to: highlight and catalyze promising information and communications technology for education (ICT4E) practices and initiatives, particularly in low-resource and developing country context; to reduce duplicative efforts; to promote collective knowledge-sharing, and to identify and support efforts to evaluate and scale promising ICT4E interventions.

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invited to speak by the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore

my team and i are thrilled to share that - by God's grace alone - we have been invited to speak as part of the programme Transforming Higher Education Leaders through Effective Policy Reforms, organised by the Executive Education department of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore.

we will be facilitating an in-person session with about thirty-five leaders, administrators and consultants from higher education institutions from the Philippines, on the topic of Reinventing Education for the Digital Age, within the campus of the school on the 17th of November 2022.

the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy was founded in 2004 with the mission of developing thought leadership, improving standards of governance and transforming lives for a more sustainable world.

we are greatly humbled to be afforded this opportunity, and we thank the leadership and staff of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy for so graciously extending trust to us.

we will do our very best.