Prototype Digital Signage System for Learning Material Delivery Focusing on Student Friendship

Abstract

A digital signage system to deliver learning materials on a university campus is described. The proposed system identifies student viewers using a high-powered radio-frequency identification reader and delivers learning materials that are suitable for multiple students based on existing and potential friendships, which can be estimated from the learning material viewing data. The delivery of learning material can reinforce existing student friendships and identify potential friendships (i.e., unite unacquainted students who can potentially form a learning community). A preliminary experiment revealed that the existing-friendship estimation is currently inaccurate and unsuitable.