Patent ID: 11961302
Assignee: THE HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. system for proctoring online exams, comprising:
a client-side computing system, comprising a camera configured to obtain video data corresponding to a user while taking an exam and one or more input devices configured to obtain interaction data, wherein the interaction data includes mouse movements of the user while taking the exam; and
a visual analytics system configured to:
obtain the video data and the interaction data from the client-side computing system;
analyze the exam data to detect abnormal behavior by the user, wherein analyzing the exam data to detect abnormal behavior is based at least in part on mouse movement data;
generate one or more visualizations of the analyzed exam data; and
display the one or more visualizations to a reviewer to facilitate the reviewer determining whether or not the user cheated during the exam;
wherein the one or more visualizations include information of a first level, a second level and a third level;
wherein the information of the first level includes a list of students taking the exam and overall risk evaluations associated with the students in the list of students, wherein a respective overall risk evaluation associated with a respective student indicates an overall risk of all types of abnormal behaviors associated with the respective student;
wherein the information of the second level includes a list of questions in the exam and risk evaluations associated with respective questions in the list of questions; and
wherein the information of the third level includes obtained video data and/or obtained interaction data associated with a respective question among the list of questions.