A survey of smart classroom: Concept, technologies and facial emotions recognition application

Technology has transformed traditional educational systems around the globe; integrating digital learning tools into classrooms offers students better opportunities to learn efficiently and allows the teacher to transfer knowledge more easily. In recent years, there have been many improvements in smart classrooms. For instance, the integration of facial emotion recognition systems (FER) has transformed the classroom into an emotionally aware area using the power of machine intelligence and IoT. This paper provides a consolidated survey of the state-of-the-art in the concept of smart classrooms and presents how the application of FER systems significantly takes this concept to the next level