This document presents research on estimating expertise using simple multimodal features. Three approaches to obtaining features from video, audio, digital pen data, and their combinations are discussed: literature-based, common-sense-based, and "why not?"-based features. Logistic regression and classification tree algorithms showed that features like percentage of calculator use, words mentioned, and writing speed discriminated experts from non-experts with over 80% accuracy. Estimating expertise was possible even from a small number of problems. The researchers concluded simple multimodal features can successfully identify expertise.
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