China: students undergo trials for new brainwave-detecting headbands

Children in China have been undergoing a trial for a new heband that detects brainwaves and tracks engment and attention level of students during a class. Focus1 hebands have been designed by a Massachusetts-based start-up by name of BrainCo, which has been founded by Han Bicheng, a PhD from Center of Brain Science from Harvard University.

An attempt to track real-time attention levels

According to a description given at BrainCo website, techlogy in hebands will help teachers with certain kinds of feedbacks that will be contextually relevant and will capture real-time actions of students that will in turn help teachers to make sustained improvements in ir skillsets. 

Focus1 hebands cost a total of 3,465 Yuan and have sensors installed in m that have been specifically engineered to enable individual use and integrate dozens of hebands that will have benefit of being simultaneously mand and monitored by a single portal with real-time statistics.

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hebands just weigh a total of 95 grams and will have a battery with a lifespan of up to 4 hours. company developing bands stated that bands and software used in m will help teachers track student engment and ir attention levels during an ongoing class.

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'Donated 50 Focus1 hebands'

Han Bicheng, an alumnus of Xiaoshan Central Primary School in Jinhua, eastern China, gave m 50 hebands because of which school has been conducting trials for 1 year with an mission that test project h improved gres of students who h undergone trials.

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'Student feel that y are continuously being watched'

A langu teacher at primary school, Zhang Yiwei, stated that students are getting feeling that y are continuously being monitored and are feeling need to re louder and to pay attention. Zhang said that after using cutting edge techlogy for half a semester, his class climbed up two places on basis of a test result among school's 4th-gre students. 

BrainCo has w inked a deal with a Chinese distributor to provide 20,000 hebands in order to make m available in classrooms of different schools in China.

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