The EU AI Act's ban on emotion recognition in education restricts an area of potential application for learning analytics¶

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q2 i? The EU AI Act's proposed ban on emotion detection in education closes off an area of widespread potential application in LA, despite preliminary evidence of benefit to learners. → Kaliisa 2025

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Kaliisa 2025¶

Kaliisa, R., Baker, R. S., Wasson, B., & Prinsloo, P. (2025). The Coming but Uneven Storm: How AI Regulation Will Impact AI and Learning Analytics Research in Different Countries. Journal of Learning Analytics, 12(2). https://doi.org/10.18608/jla.2025.8495

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The authors' interpretive analysis of the EU AI Act's provisions notes that the emotion recognition ban, part of classifying all educational AI use as high-risk, would heavily impact LA. They cite prior work suggesting preliminary evidence of benefit to learners from emotion-aware systems.

"the ban on emotion recognition closes off an area of widespread potential application in our field (though more in China, and Australia than the EU; Calvo et al., 2015), with preliminary evidence of benefit to learners"

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