Production and validation of prototype Adaptive-media® based remote soft skills training tool

纳克罗教育支持处境不利的年轻人，包括青年罪犯，提供各种个性化的学习方案，包括认证的职业培训和工作安置。学习者往往缺乏自尊，缺乏信心，虽然他们可能正在发展硬技能，但如果他们没有必要的软技能，他们可能很容易在求职面试中跌倒。更糟糕的是，封锁措施突显了弱势年轻人在家中学习所面临的不平等。软技能将是人类相对于机器保持的优势之一，因此社会上每个人都有机会获得软技能是至关重要的。我们将制作一个远程软技能培训工具的原型，以帮助处于不利地位的年轻人发展一套良好的软技能，他们可以在面试中使用这些软技能来补充他们的硬技能，并极大地增加他们获得就业或工作的机会。我们将使用基于人工智能的尖端英国创新来帮助他们。自适应媒体技术是一种新的身临其境的数字视频格式，它使用人工智能根据视频内容的外观和反应实时自然地适应观众，就像人类本能地相互适应一样。它可以通过观众的设备摄像头(例如，任何带有现代网络浏览器的智能手机、平板电脑、PC)读取观众的面部输入，以实时分析人，然后基于情感、注意力和人口统计等人为因素向观众提供适当的内容，通常是数字视频的形式。简单打个比方，就像我们第一次见到某人时，我们不需要那个人的个人信息或数据来交谈，我们只需要通过分析他们的脸和反应来调整和适应我们面前的人。自适应媒体完全符合GDPR，不做面部识别！所有用户必须首先允许使用他们的相机，并且没有在任何服务器上记录或存储生物特征数据。基于自适应媒体的远程软技能培训工具项目将是第一个自适应媒体试点，以解决一个重要而紧迫的学习需求。它将为年轻人创造面试角色扮演场景和评估，让他们练习和获得在面试情况下表现更好所需的软技能，即使他们无法上物理学校或大学。该项目有望验证自适应媒体格式，打开许多可能的应用。

Nacro Education supports disadvantaged young adults, including young offenders, offering a variety of personalised study programmes, including certified vocational training and work placements. Learners often have low esteem, lack confidence and while they may be developing hard skills, they might easily fall at the job interview hurdle if they don't have the necessary soft skills. To make matters worse, lockdown has highlighted the inequalities disadvantaged young people face learning from home. Soft skills will be one of the advantages humans maintain over machines, so it is vital everyone in society has the opportunity to acquire them.We are going to prototype a remote soft skills training tool to help disadvantaged young adults develop a good set of soft skills they can use at interviews to complement their hard skills and dramatically increase their chances of getting a placement or job.We are going to use a cutting-edge AI-based British innovation to help them. Adaptive-media technology is a new immersive digital video format that uses artificial intelligence to adapt video content naturally to the viewer in real-time, based upon how they appear and how they react, just as humans instinctively adapt to each other. It can read the viewers facial inputs through their device camera (e.g. any smartphone, tablet, PC with modern web browser) to analyse the person in real-time and then serve the viewer appropriate content, based upon human factors such as emotion, attention and demographics, usually in the form of digital video. To use a simple analogy, it is like when we meet someone for the first time, we don't need that person's personal information or data to have a conversation, we just adjust and adapt to the person in front of us by analysing their face and reactions.Adaptive-media fully conforms to GDPR and is NOT doing facial recognition! All users must always first allow their camera to be used and there is no recording or storing of biometric data on any server.The Adaptive-media based remote soft skills training tool project will be the first adaptive-media pilot to solve an important and urgent learning requirement. It will create interview role play scenarios and evaluation for young adults to practice and acquire the soft skills they need to perform better in interview situations, even when they are unable to attend a physical school or college. The project will hopefully validate the Adaptive-media format, opening up many possible applications.